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.

A team of researchers claimed to have made significant strides in solving one of America’s oldest mysteries — the fate of the Roanoke Colony. More than four centuries after the settlement mysteriously ...

From unexplained phenomena to baffling disappearances, follow the clues while discovering our country’s treasured protected ...

When he arrived at Roanoke Island in 1590 he found “CROATOAN” carved on a post and “cro” on a tree. He found no distress marks. They literally made a sign.

Chariots of the Gods? The book that inspired Ancient Aliens Harrying and harassment by the Spanish Armada meant that White’s return to Roanoke Island was delayed by three years. When he finally came ...

The mysterious lost colony of Roanoke In 1587, an English expedition set out to colonise Roanoke Island on the eastern coast of North America…only for the colonists to vanish without trace. What ...

This fall new research may confirm the authenticity of an engraved stone found near the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke — a stone dismissed for decades as a forgery.

Former mayor and current Pastor Nelson Harris and former Roanoke County Circuit Court Clerk Steve McGraw are interested in expanding the famed entertainer's Imagination Library to Roanoke and ...

A Roanoke judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by two bicyclists who were seriously injured when they ran into a closed gate across a Mill Mountain roadway that was not easily visible.