Philip Gosse in 1939. Bonnet's crew and contemporaries generally referred to him flying a "bloody flag", which likely means a dark red flag. There is also a report from the 1718 The Boston News-Letter of Bonnet flying a death's head flag during his pursuit of the Protestant Caesar, with no mention of colour or of any long bone, heart, or dagger. Walking the plank Bonnet is alleged to have been one of the few pirates to make his prisoners walk the plank. No contemporaneous source makes any mention of Bonnet forcing prisoners to walk the plank, and modern scholars such as Marcus Rediker, Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, generally agree that the whole concept of pirates forcing prisoners to walk the plank belongs to a later age than Bonnet's. Popular culture Bonnet has been portrayed several times in literature. His life was turned into a story by the French author Marcel Schwob in his book Imaginary Lives. He is a major character in Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides, along with other famous pirate characters, particularly Blackbeard. In this novel, Bonnet takes up piracy after having been framed by Blackbeard, who has used Bonnet's hatred for his wife (only married two years in the novel) against him. Kate Bonnet: The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter, by the 19th-century American author Frank R. Stockton, is a satirical novel relating the adventures of a fictional daughter of Bonnet named Kate. Portrayals of Bonnet also extend to video games, such as Sid Meier's Pirates! and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. In the 1941 film The Devil and Daniel Webster, the Devil summons Bonnet to join a jury of the damned, announcing Bonnet and fellow seaman Floyd Ireson as "the fiendish butchers". A plaque commemorating Bonnet stands near Bonnet's Creek in Southport, North Carolina, on the Cape Fear River. The Yacht Basin Provision Company also holds an annual Stede Bonnet Regatta near Southport, commemorating the infamous pirate's dash for the ocean. The radio program This American Life produced a feature on May 5, 2017, on pirates. In the prologue, host Ira Glass spoke to producer Elna Baker about the life of Stede Bonnet. The podcast Real Pirates discusses Bonnet and Blackbeard across five episodes, with appearances by Stede Bonnet biographer Jeremy R. Moss and pirate historians and authors Dr. Rebecca Simon, Colin Woodard and Eric Jay Dolan. The period comedy television series