- Beowulf: Is the story based on a real person?
- Brethren of the Coast: Loose confederation of pirates - (see fourth and fifth paragraphs)
- Dracula: The true story of Vlad Tepes ("Vlad the Impaler")
- Gladiators: "Hail, Caesar, those about to die salute thee"
- Grendel: Monster from Anglo-Saxon times (or earlier?)
- Grendel's Mother: A "sea hag" monster who seeks revenge
- Leonidas and the Battle of Thermopylae: The Greeks lost after one of their own betrayed them
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Port Royal: A base for Caribbean pirates, it was greatly damaged in a 1692 earthquake
- Remember the Alamo: The Story of Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Travis
- Spanish Main: Its association with pirates
- Tortuga: A Caribbean island then described as "the common place of refuge for all sorts of wickedness, the seminary of pirates and thieves"
- Trolls: Are they real?
- Ulysses (Odysseus) and the Trojan Horse