"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 ...

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

Dawson, an amateur archaeologist, claims there have been clues throughout the past 430-plus years about the colonists. “The entire concept of the colony being lost is total fiction, Dawson told ...

White finally returned to Roanoke ... tree and the word “CROATOAN” carved into a wooden post. Andrew Lawler, author of “The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony ...

The plume from Roanoke Island “put us in good hope that some of the colony were there ... s Machapunga in 1960. If the lost colonists melted into the Croatoan and then the Machapunga, their ...

The basic beats of the story behind the Lost Colony of Roanoke go something like ... the letters CRO carved into a tree trunk, and the word CROATOAN etched into a wooden post at the entrance ...

Now, recently-unearthed evidence may shed light on what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke ... “Croatoan” carved into a fort’s gatepost and the word “Cro” etched into a tree.

Stories have taken root that the colonists, who left no clear trace aside from the word “Croatoan” carved on a tree, survived ... “The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island,” published in ...

What happened to the Lost Colony? A researcher said the mystery ... of people of their history by pretending Croatoan is a mystery on the tree.” ...

a full lifetime after the Roanoke colony was abandoned. Horton argues that members of the lost colony living among the Croatoan may have kept their few heirlooms even as they slowly adopted Indian ...