"Why we believe that these remains are that of Capt. Sam Bellamy is because of where the remains were found, where the bones were found," said Casey Sherman, a member of the Whydah research team.

Researchers are examining whether human bones found in a Cape Cod shipwreck are those of the infamous pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy.. The Whydah Pirate Museum in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, said ...

YARMOUTH, Mass. --A bone fragment recovered from a Cape Cod shipwreck is not from infamous pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy after all.The Whydah Pirate Museum in Yarmouth announced Thursday that ...

The legendary pirate Samuel Bellamy was never found after his ship got wrecked in 1717. But archeologists discovered his ship, the Whydah, off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., in 1982.

The team has already located Bellamy's direct descendants in England. After plundering the West Indies in 1717, Bellamy was heading to Cape Cod to visit his girlfriend, when a storm sank the ship.

Experts are planning to perform DNA analysis on a human bone recovered from a Cape Cod shipwreck to determine whether it belongs to the infamous pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy. The Whydah ...

Pirate Sam Bellamy is known for many things—being the Robin Hood of the sea, having good manners and becoming the richest pirate ever, Ellis said.

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Samuel Bellamy had a reputation on the high seas, once upon a time. It wasn’t the usual reputation of violence and thievery that pirates in the 1700s tended to receive.