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

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

The ‘amateur archaeologist’ says he’s discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely vanished from ...

According to Artnet News, the post read “Croatoan.” This was the name of a place that is now known as Hatteras Island. That island is about 65 miles from Roanoke. One might expect the carved name to ...

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, ...