The Truth Behind Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
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Sep. 12, 2006

In the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Jack Sparrow battled the Royal Navy and a bunch of cursed pirates. In the sequel, Dead Man's Chest, he's up against even more frightening foes: hungry cannibals, a supersize squid, and a ghostly sea captain who's after Jack’s soul!

Jack and his ship, the Black Pearl, are just fiction—but pirates really did terrorize the seas during the 1700s, when the movie is set. How closely does the film capture that kind of pirate life? NG Kids discovers the answers.

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Website: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/kids/2006/09/piratestwo.html

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