If so, it means Captain Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy went down with his ship. The Whydah sank in 1717 of the coast of Wellfleet on the Outer Cape; the remains of the ship were discovered in 1984, along with much of its cargo, and a museum dedicated to the pirate ship is in West Yarmouth; researchers are testing the DNA of a descendant of the pirate captain to see if it matches a femur they found inside a large solid mass pulled from the wreck, according to The Cape Cod Times.
The former pope's letter to an Italian reporter does not mention any particular illness or prognosis, but it capitalizes the word "Casa," which is Italian for "home," an apparent reference to Heaven. Joseph Ratzinger, 90, who took the name Benedict XVI when he was elected pope in 2005, resigned in February 2013 and has lived in retirement in the Vatican since then.
