The Lost Colony of Roanoke Mystery

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00:00In 1587, over a hundred English settlers vanished, without a trace.

00:05They had built a new colony on Roanoke Island, a fresh start in the new world.

00:10Families' children hoped all of it gone.

00:13When ships returned three years later, the settlement was empty.

00:17Houses were dismantled.

00:18No bodies, no struggle.

00:20Only one word carved into a wooden post.

00:23Croatoan.

00:24Was it a clue?

00:25Did they move to a nearby island?

00:27Were they attacked or absorbed by a native tribe?

00:30No one knows.

00:32Centuries later, archaeologists still search for answers.

00:35Artifacts appear, whispers of survival.

00:38But the truth remains buried.

00:40Roanoke stands as America's oldest unsolved mystery.

00:43A colony that simply vanished, and a single word that still haunts history.

00:48Croatoan.