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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.
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