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"It's funny that people still pretend that the colonists carved a mysterious word on a tree — 'Croatoan' — and no one knows ...
The ‘amateur archaeologist’ says he’s discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely vanished from ...
Amateur Archaeologist Claims He Knows What Happened to the Members of the Lost Colony of Roanoke The 'Lost Colony of Roanoke' ...
For more than 400 years, the mystery of how 118 colonists just up and disappeared from Roanoke Island in what is now North ...
Reaching the abandoned settlement, the governor spotted a post on which “in fair capital letters was graven CROATOAN without any cross or sign of distress.” Yet the post itself was part of a ...
Stories have taken root that the colonists, who left no clear trace aside from the word “Croatoan” carved on a tree, survived somewhere on the mainland, died in conflict with Native Americans ...
The only clue the colony left behind was the word "Croatoan" carved into a wooden post, which may have referred to nearby Croatoan Island. Creative Commons “American Horror Story” Season 6 has ...
The sole clue to the settlers’ fate was a post carved with the word “Croatoan,” then the name of Hatteras Island and its native inhabitants, who had been on friendly terms with the English.
“The truth of the Croatoan was lost in order to prop up a racist myth designed to hide assimilation… In 1937 the lost colony play was created and North Carolina was still 30 years away from ...