Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

Wikimedia CommonsJohn White’s depiction of his 1590 expedition to Roanoke Island, when he discovered that the colony had disappeared. Now, recently-unearthed evidence may shed light on what ...

The only trace of the settlers he found was the word "Croatoan" carved into a wooden post - the name of another island just south of Roanoke the home of a Native American tribe. Over the years ...

Fuckin’ CREEPY, right? This unsettling chapter in America history is the subject of Zao’s new song, “Croatoan” — that bizarre, undefinable word that was carved into a wood post at Roanoke. The ...