00:00August 1590, a supply ship reaches Roanoke Island, off North Carolina.
00:07The captain expects 115 English colonists waiting on the shore.
00:13Instead, he finds empty houses, cold fireplaces, and not a single soul.
00:20Three years earlier, in 1587, John White had led those 115 men, women, and children across the Atlantic to build
00:31England's first permanent colony in the New World.
00:35But supplies ran dangerously low.
00:38White sailed back to England for help, and war with Spain trapped him there.
00:42For three long years, the colonists were on their own.
00:46When White finally returned in 1590, the homes were still standing, carefully dismantled, not burned or broken.
00:56It looked less like an attack, and more like a planned departure.
01:00Then White spotted the only clue, a single word carved deep into a fence post.
01:09Croatoan, the name of a nearby island, and of the friendly native tribe living there.
01:16There was no cross carved beside it.
01:19The secret distress signal they had agreed on.
01:22No cross meant no forced escape.
01:25Had the colonists simply...
01:27Walked away?
01:29But before White could sail to Croatoan Island, violent storms battered his ship.
01:36His crew forced him to turn back to England.
01:39He would never return to Roanoke.
01:51In 1701, an explorer met natives with gray eyes who claimed English ancestors.
01:59Archaeologists still dig on Roanoke Island.
02:03DNA researchers study the Lumbee tribe.
02:06Carved stones claiming to tell the story were exposed as hoaxes.
02:12Every lead fades.
02:15400 years later, the lost colony remains America's oldest unsolved mystery.
02:22115 people stepped into the fog of history and never stepped out.
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