Some pretty remarkable things tend to happen after Scott Mitchen visits with schoolchildren. The kids click off their TVs, log off their computers, shun video games and tend to forget all about their ...

Johnny Depp, it turns out, has led us astray. The real pirates of the Caribbean were actually bloodthirsty and terrifyingly violent, the Telegraph reports. Marine archeologists have been sifting ...

The first mention of a pirate by name may be in a Greek book from 2,500 years ago. But sea-raiding has been around since the ...

The idea of setting sail toward a mysterious island in search of buried treasure has captured imaginations for centuries. On screen, pirates are bold, free-spirited adventurers chasing fortune and ...

When a teacher from Landstown Middle School in Virginia Beach invited me to join her sixth-graders on a scavenger hunt, how could I say no? I'd inadvertently crashed their class trip to a pirate ...