Whydah Pirate Museum

West Yarmouth, MA

On April 26, 1717, a ferocious nor’easter slammed the Whydah Galley into the shoals off Cape Cod, taking nearly 150 men and millions in plundered treasure to the bottom - a story the ocean kept secret for nearly 300 years. In 1984, explorer Barry Clifford changed history, locating the wreck and authenticating the world’s only confirmed pirate shipwreck. The pirates were real.