BLACKOAK: Gold in the Sand — What the Whydah's Carpenter Heard Before the Hull Opened

She was built to carry slaves. She became the richest pirate ship of her age. And on the night of April 26, 1717, she struck a sandbar off Cape Cod and took one hundred and forty men to the bottom of the Atlantic in the space of a few hours.Of those men, only two survived. One of them was the carpenter.In this episode of BLACKOAK: The Adventures, the ancient sentient tankard carries an account it received in a Boston tavern in October of 1717 — the same afternoon that six of the Whydah's captured crew were hanged at the waterfront. The man holding Blackoak that evening was Thomas Davis, a Welsh carpenter who had been seized from a merchant vessel and forced aboard the Whydah against his will. He had given the court the testimony that saved his life. Then he had come to Fish Street with three centuries' worth of weight and nowhere left to put it.He told Blackoak what a carpenter sees that no one else does: the load riding too deep, the hull speaking in the hours before the wreck, and what the bags of gold sounded like through the planking in the last hour before everything became water. He told it about holding iron slave fittings in his hands and what he felt that no court had language to receive. About two men on a beach where one hundred and forty had been the night before. And about the word he kept arriving at for what the cargo sounded like at the end — a word no official record would accept but that he could not replace with anything more accurate.In 1984, marine archaeologist Barry Clifford found the Whydah's bell on the floor of the Atlantic. It read: THE WHYDAH GALLY 1716. The first authenticated pirate shipwreck ever discovered. Over 200,000 artifacts recovered since — including the remains of John King, a boy estimated to be eight to eleven years old who had demanded to join the pirates over his mother's objection and died in the wreck.The gold Davis heard is still out there. Distributed across miles of Cape Cod seabed by three centuries of Atlantic weather. Surfacing after storms. Waiting.BLACKOAK: The Adventures is a historical mystery podcast narrated by an ancient sentient tankard forged from the wreckage of a warship off the Carolina coast. It has spent centuries in the rooms where history was made by people who believed objects couldn't listen. They were wrong.Produced by Fuzzy Life Studios. Premium cinematic audio storytelling.

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