The ‘amateur archaeologists’ claims to have discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely vanished ...

The lost colonists left behind one clue: 'Croatoan'. The lost colonists of Roanoke left behind a clue about their fate, the word 'Croatoan' carved into a tree. Who were the Croatans? What were their ...

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

Scott Dawson says recent finds point to a clear answer By Mary Ellen Riddle | Outer Banks Voice Earlier this month, Scott Dawson of Buxton sat in front of a mound of excavated material from a ...

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.

Discover one of America's biggest early mysteries at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and stop and smell the roses at ...

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 happened?