CLASSIC: What really happened to the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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It's one of the most enduring enigmas in American history -- how did an entire colony disappear from Roanoke island? Join the guys as they explore the facts, fiction and speculation surrounding the mysterious fate of the colonists, the clues they may have left behind and the search that continues in the modern day.

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0:00.0	Oh, man.
0:01.7	Guys, folks, friends and neighbors, in these crazy times, I think we all love taking a little
0:11.0	bit of a break from the headlines and go it into, you know, conspiracies of yesterday
0:16.6	hidden history, paranormal stuff, things like that, right?
0:20.5	Crackatoa.
0:21.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:23.3	Stuff that can't hurt us.
0:24.7	Croaton.
0:25.6	Oh, my bad.
0:28.0	Creteen.
0:30.5	Casey Anthony.
0:31.4	But agree.
0:32.0	It's stuff that can't hurt us right now, right?
0:34.4	It's mysterious.
0:35.7	There's a mystery to be solved, but not going to affect us as we
0:39.7	walk around drinking all this coffee. It's true. We, yes, I do drink a lot of coffee. Me too. I finally
0:47.3	finished. I need more. Yes. It's happening. As soon as we roll the tape on what really happened
0:53.1	to the lost colony of Roanoke.
0:57.2	Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley season one.
1:04.6	I just knew him as a kid.
1:06.7	Long, silent voices from his past came forward.
1:10.9	And he was just staring at me.
	...

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