00:00in 1587 over 100 english settlers landed on roanoke island determined to build a new life
00:17they had men women and the first english child born in america virginia dare their governor
00:26john white sailed back to england for supplies
00:42but when he returned three years later the entire colony was gone
00:48the village was empty the houses had been carefully taken down not burned or destroyed
01:00there were no signs of a fight no bodies no graves
01:04117 people had vanished from the face of the earth
01:23the only clue was a single cryptic word carved deep into a wooden post croatoan
01:34that was the name of a nearby island and a friendly native american tribe
01:50did the colonists leave a message telling john white where they had gone
01:55he tried to sail to that island but a violent storm forced his ships to turn back abandoning the search
02:02croatoan gone at last and so are we for centuries the mystery has haunted america
02:13did the settlers join the croatoan tribe peacefully blending into a new life
02:20were they massacred by another hostile tribe or did starvation and disease claim them one by one
02:28but the darkest theory is the one the colonists themselves feared
02:39a local legend spoke of a spirit that haunted the island one that could make people simply disappear
02:50toca to people simply would disappear the only trace scabb
02:57to people together and understood the mystery where they had gone before
02:59some arsenic camp
03:05calm down
03:06calm down
03:09calm down
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