"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 ...

When officials from Britain arrived to help the colonists, they were surprised to find that there was nobody there, and it ...

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.

For more than 400 years, the mystery of how 118 colonists just up and disappeared from Roanoke Island in what is now North ...

Whatever happened to the lost colonists of Roanoke ... concept of the colony being lost is total fiction, Dawson told the British news outlet. “The truth of the Croatoan was lost in order ...

In 1585, the English settlers reached the New World and established a colony on the island of Roanoke ... The only clue left behind was the word “Croatoan,” the former name of what is now ...

To many people today, these are the most mysterious details from the story of Roanoke’s lost colony. To White, they didn’t seem all that mysterious. He couldn’t sail immediately to Croatoan ...

By Alan Yuhas In 1590, the would-be governor of a colony meant ... against Croatoan villagers, she wrote, the settlers probably took refuge with them. “The Indians of Roanoke, Croatoan, Secotan ...

It all began in 1587 when more than a hundred English colonists landed on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. This would have been the first permanent English settlement ...

In 1586, when food ran perilously short for members of the first Roanoke colony, its leader dispersed his hundred settlers across the region, including to Croatoan, so they could forage—a tactic ...