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

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

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 ...

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 ...

while the reference to CROATOAN was a signal that others had moved to nearby Croatoan Island (today known as Hatteras Island) to await White’s return. And so Site X was born: A rough ...

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 ...

This sparked a theory that the settlers fled 50 miles south to Hatteras Island, which was then known as Croatoan Island. However, in 1937, a 21-pound stone engraved with strange markings was found ...

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 ...

This sparked a theory that the settlers fled 50 miles south to Hatteras Island, which was then known as Croatoan Island. However, in 1937, a 21-pound stone engraved with strange markings was found ...