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EPISODE · Apr 25, 2026 · 21 MIN

ROANOKE: 115 PEOPLE VANISHED. ONE WORD LEFT BEHIND.

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Episode 4 | History's Mysteries — Unsolved EventsIn this Mystery episode we focus on the Lost Colony of Roanoke — 115 English settlers established a colony on the coast of North Carolina in 1587, and when the governor returned three years later, every single one of them was gone. The buildings had been deliberately dismantled. One word was carved on a post: CROATOAN.This episode covers England's early colonial ambitions, the three-year gap caused by the Spanish Armada crisis, the theories from assimilation with Native peoples to Spanish attack, the 2012 discovery of a hidden symbol on John White's original map, and the story of Virginia Dare — the first English child born in the Americas — whose fate is completely unknown.America's oldest unsolved mystery. More than four hundred years old.#HistoryMystery #Roanoke #LostColony #UnsolvedMysteries #MysteryPodcast

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