The Lost Colony of Roanoke | COLOSSAL MYSTERIES

More than 400 years ago, a daring group of energetic settlers crossed the Atlantic Ocean and attempted to establish their first English settlement in the new world called Roanoke. None of those poor people were ever heard from again, so what happened to the mysterious missing ones?

roanoke

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let's find out in today's episode of

colossal

mystics on april 9, 1585 five ships left the port of plymouth england and set sail across the atlantic ocean to establish a new english

colony

on the east coast of north america the journey was long and dangerous and took four terrible months to complete in august the shattered fleet finally found a place to establish a small island on the outer shores of what we now call north carolina called

roanoke

island it turned out that surviving was brutally hard work the land was Conditions were harsh and fresh supplies were needed, so the newly elected governor of Roanoke, John White, sailed back to England to plead with the queen for more support, leaving behind his wife and newborn granddaughter and promising to return within for a year, but things didn't work out.

To go as planned, it was three long years before John White finally found his way back to the Roanoke settlement and what he found when he returned was truly mysterious. The captain could find no trace of the colony or its hundreds of inhabitants. It's as if they disappeared into thin air after searching the place where the white settlement had been. They found only one curious clue: the word Croatoan carved into a tree. The captain and his men desperately wanted to continue the search for his wife, his daughter, his grandson and the rest of the missing. victims, but a large storm approaching the coast forced them to turn around and return across the atlantic ocean to england.

To this day the

lost

roanoke colony remains one of the best known

mysteries

of early american history experts have been unable to solve roanoke secrets but have suggested some possible explanations. Some people think that the colonists tried to sail back to England on their own but were

lost

at sea. Others believe they may have been attacked by Spanish soldiers heading north from Florida, but perhaps the most popular theory involves the curious clue the captain and his men found when they returned to Roanoke. The word Croatian eerily carved into a tree was the name of an island just south of the settler, but a tribe of First Nations people called the Roanoke settlement home.

They were attacked or kidnapped by that nearby tribe and the carving of the tree was a last-ditch effort to let any returning Englishmen know what had happened to them, but most experts believe it is equally likely that the settlers were not attacked at all since that they were having such a difficult time surviving, most think that they joined a friendly tribe and became part of the native people, but no matter the explanation, it seems likely that we will never know what really happened to the hundreds of people who They disappeared from Roanoke without a trace and now you know a little more about the mystery of the lost colony of Romania comment below with a mystery that you would like us to solve and remember to subscribe for more episodes of

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