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

"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 ...

which may have referred to nearby Croatoan Island. Creative Commons “American Horror Story” Season 6 has been titled "My Roanoke Nightmare," once again thursting the mysterious word "Croatoan ...

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

Photograph by Stuart Conway WITH PERMISSION OF TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM Croatoan was the name of both a barrier island to the south and the indigenous people who lived there, Carolina ...

The only clue left behind was the word “Croatoan,” the former name of what is now Hatteras Island, carved into a post. There are many theories about what became of Roanoke, none of which are ...

He was the son of a woman generally believed to have been chief of the Croatoans, who lived on Croatoan Island (now Hatteras Island). They told the colonists that Howe’s assailants—Wanchese ...

The current theory is that the colonists fled 50 miles south to Hatteras Island, then known as Croatoan Island. Klingelhofer suggests they may have gone in a different direction. He believes the ...

The prevailing theory has been that the colonists abandoned Roanoke and traveled 50 miles south to Hatteras Island, which was then known as Croatoan Island. But, Klingelhofer said, what if they ...

In 1587, an English expedition set out to colonise Roanoke Island on the eastern coast of North America…only for the ...

1540 - c1593) and others as they find a tree into which the word "CROATOAN" had been carved on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1590. Stock image: Illustration depicts John White (c. 1540 ...