{"id":3323,"slug":"teachs-hole-ocracoke-north-carolina","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Teach's Hole is the '18 — the 'November 22' that's the killed, the 'Maynard' that's the ambush. The '25 wounds' is the fought — the '5 shots' that's the plus, the 'head' that's the bowsprit. The 'pardoned' is the betrayed — the 'Eden' that's the bribed, the 'Spotswood' that's the Virginia.","The 'Jane' is the trap — the 'below deck' that's the hid, the 'boarded' that's the surprised. The 'Queen Anne' is the beached — the 'Beaufort' that's the '18, the '30 men' that's the reduced. Teach's Hole is the end — the 'Adventure' that's the anchored, the 'last five months' that's the lived.","The file keeps Teach's Hole: the 1718 death, the Maynard ambush, the 25 wounds, and the head bowsprit.","Teach's Hole is the archive's Ocracoke file — the pirate's last."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Teach's Hole is the archive's Ocracoke file — the ambush's channel.","A hole keeps its pirate — the file's suggestion being that Teach's hold is the end: the '25 wounds' that's the fought, the 'head' that's the proof, and the 'pardoned' that's the betrayed."]}],"name":"Teach’s Hole","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","MARITIME","LEGEND_SITE","PIRATE"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"November 22, 1718—where Blackbeard fell at the channel.","full_desc":"A site in Ocracoke, North Carolina, Teach’s Hole is filed here for what the record attaches to it. November 22, 1718—where Blackbeard fell at the channel. HauntHunt files it with maritime history, pirate lore and dark history. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Blackbeard. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Ocracoke","county":null,"state":"North Carolina","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":35.073231,"lon":-75.998527,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"NC2 batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":3435,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Blackbeard is reportedly seen. Teach’s Hole's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Blackbeard","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Teach’s Hole / Ocracoke","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocracoke,_North_Carolina","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3436,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures on the island and the channel. The reports at Teach’s Hole are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. Investigators logged it; whether instruments or interpretation produced it is the open question. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Teach’s Hole / Ocracoke","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocracoke,_North_Carolina","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The November 22, 1718 battle is documented. Teach’s Hole's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Teach’s Hole / Ocracoke' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1718-11-22","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Teach’s Hole / Ocracoke","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocracoke,_North_Carolina","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Blackbeard is reportedly seen. The reports at Teach’s Hole are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'Teach’s Hole / Ocracoke'. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Teach’s Hole / Ocracoke","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocracoke,_North_Carolina","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Blackbeard","claimed_identity":"Blackbeard","verified":null,"summary":"Blackbeard is reportedly seen. The site in Ocracoke, North Carolina gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. 'Teach’s Hole / Ocracoke' carries the account. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is Blackbeard. The report keeps its place in the record.","behavior":"Blackbeard is reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Teach’s Hole / Ocracoke","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocracoke,_North_Carolina","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Teach’s Hole / Ocracoke","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocracoke,_North_Carolina","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}