Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we set sail for the legend of Henry Every (also known as Long Ben, Benjamin Bridgeman, or simply the King of the Pirates). He was the 17th-century pirate captain who pulled off the ultimate score. We ask just how did an English sailor rise to pirate captain, carry out the most lucrative raid in human history, trigger the world's first global manhunt, and then vanish into thin air with millions in gold? From his mutiny aboard the Charles II to the daring...
