Episode 492: Blackbeard Part II - P is for Pirate
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The Pirates, the Pirates and Blackbeard
Blackbeard had sent them back naked because the clothes and ry worn by these prisoners was valuable. Other times, pirates would force captives to run endlessly around the main mast of the ship until they passed out from exhaustion. The bleeding victim was shut inside a barrel filled with cockroaches so the pirates could laugh at their screams of terror. Some buccaneers would tie a rope around a captive's head and tighten it more and more and more until the cap ives eyes popped out of their skull.
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