Myia Hanson and Jeremy Hanson
BLACKOAK A Fuzzy Life Studios Production What if the most dangerous witness to history wasn't a person? Blackoak is an ancient tavern mug carved from the wreckage of a warship that sank off the Carolina coast. For centuries it sat silent — passed between sailors and soldiers, criminals and kings, killers and confessors — absorbing every secret spoken by those who believed objects could not listen.…
17 episodes
An old sailor dies on a calm night on the Black Sea, and the last thing he does with his hands is push a bundle of oilskin into his grandson's arms. Inside are a journal, a burned…
Ep. 19July 21, 202654:08
History remembers kings, emperors, and admirals in carved stone. It forgets the woman who beat them all. In this episode, Blackoak, the ancient sentient tankard, remembers the…
Ep. 18July 7, 202630:22
In this episode of Blackoak: The Adventures, the ancient sentient tankard turns from kings and conquerors to a rarer kind of hand — one that wanted not to take the world but to…
Ep. 17June 24, 202649:24
A working ship is not a single mind. A working ship is sixteen to forty men, in close quarters, on a small piece of wood in the middle of a great deal of water, all of whom have…
Ep. 16June 18, 202641:12
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…
Ep. 15June 2, 202640:57
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…
Ep. 14May 26, 202653:12
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…
Ep. 13May 5, 202640:25
BLACKOAK: Gold Beneath the Tempest — The Night the Spanish Empire Lost 11 Ships and a Thousand Men to One Hurricane On the night of July 30, 1715, eleven Spanish ships carrying…
Ep. 12April 28, 202643:29
BLACKOAK: The Ice That Would Not Let Go — What the Sailor Who Found the Franklin Note Couldn't Put Down In May of 1847, someone stood at a desk inside HMS Terror — beset in Arctic…
Ep. 11April 21, 202644:52
BLACKOAK: The Word in the Wood — What the Sailor Who Read CROATOAN Never Told the Record The houses were still standing. The settlement had not been destroyed. It had been…
Ep. 10April 14, 202647:05
BLACKOAK: The Plate and the Fog — What Drake's Sailor Saw in the California Fog That No Official Record Contains The Golden Hind was riding too deep.When Francis Drake captured…
Ep. 9April 7, 202641:35
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.…
Ep. 8April 2, 202644:50
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…
Ep. 7March 26, 202647:17
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…
Ep. 6March 19, 202647:58
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…
Ep. 5March 12, 202646:08
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 —…
Ep. 4March 5, 202648:34
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…
Ep. 3February 26, 202646:41