Blackoak the Adventures
Myia Hanson
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BLACKOAK: THE ADVENTURES The Knife That Rusted Overnight
There is a kind of time that does not pass. It waits.In this episode of Blackoak: The Adventures, the ancient sentient tankard narrates the story of Jacob Rourke, a forty-one-year-old ship's cook who…
BLACKOAK: THE ADVENTURES The Stars That Shifted
BLACKOAK: THE ADVENTURES The Stars That ShiftedThe stars do not move. The sea moves. The ship moves. The wind moves. Every working part of a working sailor's life is, in some sense, a moving part —…
BLACKOAK: The Footprints That Led Nowhere — A Maritime Mystery That Defies Reality
What happens when footprints appear in the sand… only to vanish into nothing?In this chilling episode of Blackoak: The Adventures, a shore party sets out on what should be a routine landing. But what…
BLACKOAK: Gold Beneath the Tempest — The Night the Spanish Empire Lost 11 Ships and a Thousand Men to One Hurricane
BLACKOAK: Gold Beneath the Tempest — The Night the Spanish Empire Lost 11 Ships and a Thousand Men to One HurricaneOn the night of July 30, 1715, eleven Spanish ships carrying the wealth of an empire…
BLACKOAK: The Ice That Would Not Let Go — What the Sailor Who Found the Franklin Note Couldn't Put Down
BLACKOAK: The Ice That Would Not Let Go — What the Sailor Who Found the Franklin Note Couldn't Put DownIn May of 1847, someone stood at a desk inside HMS Terror — beset in Arctic ice for eight months…
BLACKOAK: The Word in the Wood — What the Sailor Who Read CROATOAN Never Told the Record
BLACKOAK: The Word in the Wood — What the Sailor Who Read CROATOAN Never Told the RecordThe houses were still standing. The settlement had not been destroyed. It had been dismantled — carefully,…
BLACKOAK: The Plate and the Fog — What Drake's Sailor Saw in the California Fog That No Official Record Contains
BLACKOAK: The Plate and the Fog — What Drake's Sailor Saw in the California Fog That No Official Record ContainsThe Golden Hind was riding too deep.When Francis Drake captured the Cacafuego in March…
Blackoak: The Adventures | The Ship That Sailed Itself | The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
In December of 1872, a British brigantine called the Dei Gratia spotted a vessel drifting erratically through the Atlantic, roughly 600 miles west of Portugal. The sails were set. The cargo was…
BLACKOAK: Gold in the Sand — What the Whydah's Carpenter Heard Before the Hull Opened
She was built to carry slaves. She became the richest pirate ship of her age. And on the night of April 26, 1717, she struck a sandbar off Cape Cod and took one hundred and forty men to the bottom of…
"The Ship That Sank in Sight of Applause — The Vasa"
The wind that sank the Vasa was ordinary. A harbor gust. The kind that exists in every harbor on August afternoons as a fact of weather rather than an event. The ship was in the water for less than…
BLACKOAK: The Head in the Water BLACKBEARD — What the Man on Maynard's Deck Told No Official Record
Five gunshot wounds. More than twenty blade cuts. And still he raised the sword again.On the morning of November 22, 1718, Lieutenant Robert Maynard rowed through the darkness of Ocracoke Inlet with…
BLACKOAK: The Betrayal of Captain Kidd — Gold, Lies, and the Rope That Held
He sailed under the blessing of the English crown. He returned to find no harbor waiting.In 1696, Captain William Kidd left New York harbor as a legally commissioned privateer — authorized by…
Blackoak The Adventures The Captain Who Watched an Empire Sink The Lost Treasure of the Flor de la Mar
In 1511, the most valuable cargo ever assembled by the Portuguese Empire was loaded onto a single aging ship in the harbor of fallen Malacca. Gold bars. Diamonds. Rubies. Jeweled relics from a…
"The Beast They Brought With Them" — Beast of Gévaudan
Something hunted the people of Gévaudan, France — and it wasn't just an animal. Over three years, more than 100 victims were torn apart in ways no wolf could manage. This is the story they tried to…
BLACKOAK Episode 1: "The Weight of Listening"
Every secret needs a witness. This is where it begins.Before the confessions. Before the buried fortunes. Before the crimes that were never solved and the beasts that were never named, there was a…
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Blackoak the Adventures has published 15 episodes since February 2026, covering topics in History, Places & Travel.
Blackoak the Adventures is currently active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 45m.
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