Though this community in the Outer Banks is charming on the surface, it hides one the oldest, and most intriguing, mysteries ...

"It's funny that people still pretend that the colonists carved a mysterious word on a tree — 'Croatoan' — and no one knows ...

Finding the bits of iron was a turning point in the years of digging to prove that what has been chronicled as the Lost Colony that eft Roanoke Island voluntarily went to Croatoan Island where the ...

Scott Dawson claims to have found “hammerscale,” a byproduct of iron forging, on Hatteras Island, the home of the indigineous Croatoan people, suggesting the colony members lived alongside them.

This was assumed to mean that the settlers had moved to Croatoan Island, now known as Hatteras Island, 50 miles to the south. Whether they actually went or made it there is a mystery to this day. Now, ...

The only clue left behind was the word Croatoan carved on a wooden post ... a group of English settlers established the Roanoke Colony on an island between what is now North Carolina and 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 ...

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 ...

The only potential clues regarding the whereabouts of the colonists had been an inscription of the word “CROATOAN” carved into a palisade, along with the letters “CRO” found carved into a nearby tree, ...