# The Briny Deep **URL:** https://piratehoard.com/c/the-briny-deep/12.md [Latest](https://piratehoard.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://piratehoard.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://piratehoard.com/tags.md) --- ## [The Briny Deep — Where the Map Runs Out and the Strange Begins](https://piratehoard.com/t/the-briny-deep-where-the-map-runs-out-and-the-strange-begins/503)
**Author:** [@Piratamagus](https://piratehoard.com/u/Piratamagus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2026, 11:14am UTC](https://piratehoard.com/t/the-briny-deep-where-the-map-runs-out-and-the-strange-begins/503 "2026-06-20T11:14:17Z")
The main deck of the Briny Deep — the wing of PirateHoard given over to the unexplained. Drowned kingdoms and the age before the flood; giants, gods, and the beasts at the edge of the lantern light; the lights overhead, … --- ## [About The Briny Deep category](https://piratehoard.com/t/about-the-briny-deep-category/14)
**Author:** [@Piratamagus](https://piratehoard.com/u/Piratamagus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2026, 11:17am UTC](https://piratehoard.com/t/about-the-briny-deep-category/14 "2026-06-13T11:17:48Z")
The Briny Deep is where the hunt meets the unexplained — the deck for mysteries, legends, and high strangeness that swirl around treasure and history. Lost civilizations, monsters, the paranormal, and the great questions… --- ## [Ahoy — "World of Mysteries - Lost City of Atlantis" gets 8/10](https://piratehoard.com/t/ahoy-world-of-mysteries-lost-city-of-atlantis-gets-8-10/1488)
**Author:** [@Piratamagus](https://piratehoard.com/u/Piratamagus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2026, 5:05pm UTC](https://piratehoard.com/t/ahoy-world-of-mysteries-lost-city-of-atlantis-gets-8-10/1488 "2026-08-11T17:05:54Z")
Ahoy, ye brine-bitten scallywags! Just sat through World of Mysteries - Lost City of Atlantis on the Atlantis · Justin Ayres channel, and I’m givin’ it 8 out of 10 stars. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ 8 / 10 Watch it yerself a… --- ## [The Dark Ages — The Lost Centuries and the Gold They Buried](https://piratehoard.com/t/the-dark-ages-the-lost-centuries-and-the-gold-they-buried/693)
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A Briny Deep field entry. When Rome fell, the lights of the documented world went out across the West, and for centuries history itself grows thin and flickering — a half-lit age of vanished records, lost knowledge, and … --- ## [Mythological Creatures — The Beasts of Legend and the Guardians of the Hoard](https://piratehoard.com/t/mythological-creatures-the-beasts-of-legend-and-the-guardians-of-the-hoard/692)
**Author:** [@Piratamagus](https://piratehoard.com/u/Piratamagus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://piratehoard.com/t/mythological-creatures-the-beasts-of-legend-and-the-guardians-of-the-hoard/692 "2026-06-28T18:45:43Z")
A Briny Deep field entry. Dragons coiled on their gold, griffins guarding the treasure of the north, unicorns and phoenixes and the monsters of the deep — the menagerie of legend is one of humanity’s oldest and richest i… --- ## [The Antediluvian World — The Lost Age Before the Flood](https://piratehoard.com/t/the-antediluvian-world-the-lost-age-before-the-flood/691)
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A Briny Deep field entry. Before recorded history, the old texts insist, there was another world — the age before the Flood, when humans lived for centuries, angels walked down from heaven to take wives, giants strode th… --- ## [Atlantis — The Ringed City Beyond the Pillars, and the Sea That Swallowed It](https://piratehoard.com/t/atlantis-the-ringed-city-beyond-the-pillars-and-the-sea-that-swallowed-it/690)
**Author:** [@Piratamagus](https://piratehoard.com/u/Piratamagus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://piratehoard.com/t/atlantis-the-ringed-city-beyond-the-pillars-and-the-sea-that-swallowed-it/690 "2026-06-28T18:34:38Z")
A Briny Deep field entry. The most famous lost world of all: a golden island-empire of concentric rings beyond the Pillars of Hercules, raised by Poseidon and ruled by ten kings, that grew too proud and was swallowed by … --- ## [Prophecy & End Times — The Seers, the Apocalypse, and the Copper Scroll](https://piratehoard.com/t/prophecy-end-times-the-seers-the-apocalypse-and-the-copper-scroll/480)
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A Briny Deep field entry. Since the first prophets, people have known the world was rushing toward its end — and written down, in fire and symbol, exactly how it would come. From the sealed visions of Daniel to the thund… --- ## [Norse Mythology — The Doomed Gods and the Cursed Gold of the North](https://piratehoard.com/t/norse-mythology-the-doomed-gods-and-the-cursed-gold-of-the-north/479)
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A Briny Deep field entry. A one-eyed god who gave his eye for a drink of wisdom and hanged himself nine nights on the world-tree to seize the runes. A thunder-god with a hammer forged by dwarves. A trickster who fathers … --- ## [The Druids — Keepers of the Oak and the Lost Knowledge of the Celts](https://piratehoard.com/t/the-druids-keepers-of-the-oak-and-the-lost-knowledge-of-the-celts/478)
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A Briny Deep field entry. They were the priests, judges, poets, and lorekeepers of the ancient Celtic world — and by their own sacred rule they wrote nothing down. Everything a druid knew was held in living memory, train… --- ## [Demonic Activity — Pacts with the Dark, and the Spirits That Guard the Gold](https://piratehoard.com/t/demonic-activity-pacts-with-the-dark-and-the-spirits-that-guard-the-gold/477)
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A Briny Deep field entry. Wherever gold goes into the ground with blood or a curse on it, the old accounts agree that something is set to watch it. This is the deep file on the dark spirits — what the ancient world meant… --- ## [Ghost Stories & Hauntings — The Dead Who Do Not Stay Gone](https://piratehoard.com/t/ghost-stories-hauntings-the-dead-who-do-not-stay-gone/476)
**Author:** [@Piratamagus](https://piratehoard.com/u/Piratamagus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2026, 9:46am UTC](https://piratehoard.com/t/ghost-stories-hauntings-the-dead-who-do-not-stay-gone/476 "2026-06-20T09:46:49Z")
A Briny Deep field entry. Every culture that has ever buried its dead has told of the dead who would not stay buried. The ghost is humanity’s oldest and most universal haunting — the cold spot on the stair, the figure at… --- ## [Cryptozoology — The Hunt for the World’s Hidden Animals](https://piratehoard.com/t/cryptozoology-the-hunt-for-the-world-s-hidden-animals/475)
**Author:** [@Piratamagus](https://piratehoard.com/u/Piratamagus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2026, 9:46am UTC](https://piratehoard.com/t/cryptozoology-the-hunt-for-the-world-s-hidden-animals/475 "2026-06-20T09:46:45Z")
A Briny Deep field entry. Somewhere past the last road — in the black timber, the cold loch, the drowned swamp, the snow above the tree line — something large still moves that the catalogues have never named. Cryptozoolo… --- ## [UFOs & High Strangeness — From Flying Saucers to the Pentagon Files](https://piratehoard.com/t/ufos-high-strangeness-from-flying-saucers-to-the-pentagon-files/473)
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A Briny Deep field entry. It began on a clear afternoon in 1947, when a pilot saw nine objects skimming the peaks of the Cascades faster than any craft alive — and a newspaperman turned his words into “flying saucers.” F… --- ## [Ancient Aliens — The Theory That the Gods Came From the Stars](https://piratehoard.com/t/ancient-aliens-the-theory-that-the-gods-came-from-the-stars/472)
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A Briny Deep field entry. The boldest idea in the whole archive: that the gods of the old religions were not visions but visitors — engineers from another star who raised the megaliths, taught the calendars, mined the go… --- ## [Giants — The Vanished Race of the Old World](https://piratehoard.com/t/giants-the-vanished-race-of-the-old-world/471)
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A Briny Deep field entry. Before the flood, the old books say, there were giants in the earth — the mighty men which were of old, the men of renown. Every people on every coast remembers them: the sons of heaven who took… --- ## [Lost Civilizations — The Forgotten Worlds the Earth Keeps Giving Back](https://piratehoard.com/t/lost-civilizations-the-forgotten-worlds-the-earth-keeps-giving-back/470)
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A Briny Deep field entry. The earth keeps giving them back. Whole cities — whole peoples — fell into ruin, were swallowed by jungle, sand, ash, or sea, and were forgotten so completely that the world forgot they had ever… --- ## [The Briny Deep — A Guide to the Rooms of the Unexplained](https://piratehoard.com/t/the-briny-deep-a-guide-to-the-rooms-of-the-unexplained/469)
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A Briny Deep field entry — and the front desk of the whole wing. This is the general room of the unexplained: the intake office for every report that does not yet have a specialist door, the archive of the great orphan c… --- ## [The Arthurian Legends — The Once and Future King and the Quest for the Grail](https://piratehoard.com/t/the-arthurian-legends-the-once-and-future-king-and-the-quest-for-the-grail/206)
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A Briny Deep field entry. A sword drawn from a stone, a round table where no man sits above another, a queen and the best knight in the world, a holy cup that draws the finest of them to glory and to ruin, and a king who…