In the late 1500s, an Englishman named John White established a settlement on Roanoke

Island off the coast of North Carolina.

But while he was away on business, the entire colony vanished.

Over 400 years later, we still can't figure out what happened to the Roanoke colony.

It is the American mystery.

There are plenty of suspicious characters, a message carved into a fence post, and Pocahontas

herself makes a cameo.

It just does not get more epic than this.

But as for what really happened to the colonists, it's possible they were never really lost.

Maybe they were hidden.

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This week we're talking about the Roanoke colony.

In 1590 this small English community disappeared without a trace.

To this day, no one knows what became of them.

The only clue left behind was a message carved on a fence post.

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