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Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke apparently definitively solved
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:38 am
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:38 am
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The long-standing speculation that the original colony assimilated into the local Croatoan Indians now appears to be proven by archeological evidence.
The long-standing speculation that the original colony assimilated into the local Croatoan Indians now appears to be proven by archeological evidence.
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Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:39 am to udtiger
apparently definitively solved?
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:40 am to udtiger
Fun fact, they were actually trying to tell their comrades their Caesar salads were lacking but misspelled "Crouton"
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:42 am to Zendog
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apparently definitively solved?
Probably, supposedly so!
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:42 am to fr33manator
Gary Croatoan aka Les Miles og fall guy.
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:43 am to Zendog
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apparently definitively solved?
Yeah, what of it? We're quite certain there's a high probability that it's probably true.
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:43 am to udtiger
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LINK The long-standing speculation that the original colony assimilated into the local Croatoan Indians now appears to be proven by archeological evidence.
This really does make the most sense.
Brutal existence. They had to do whatever they had to do to survive even if that meant joining a tribe or however that worked.
Just thinking about all this makes me have so much respect for the men and women who sailed over here.
The balls on these people. I mean, where you lived sucked so badly you got on a fricking sailboat headed into never ending seas not knowing if you’d ever hit land again.
I can’t imagine it. I really cannot imagine the turmoil inside these people as they boarded to head over here. Just incredible story of how tough human beings are.
We aren’t meant to sit in our rooms and play video games all day.
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:45 am to udtiger
Josh Gates had an episode with the same evidence a few years ago.
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:47 am to jizzle6609
Would be a great 10 episode series from Netflix or Prime, from the initial attempt to form a group of people willing to chance it to the eventual assimilation into Croatoans.
This post was edited on 6/7/25 at 11:48 am
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:48 am to udtiger
Join a local tribe, get to run around the woods in a loin cloth, hunt and fish, get native wife
There is worse things to have to deal with
There is worse things to have to deal with
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:48 am to udtiger
So the Indians enslaved them and forced them to work in a sweltering forge to produce weapons.
Where’s my reparations?
Where’s my reparations?
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:51 am to udtiger
Archeologists say there’s a 50/50 chance they lived with the indians, though there’s only a 10% chance of that.
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:52 am to udtiger
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John White, the governor of the colony, returned to England for supplies in 1587. When he came back to Roanoke Island in August 1590, he found the settlement mysteriously abandoned – and all the colonists, including his daughter Eleanor Dare and his granddaughter Virginia Dare, gone.
That’s a long run to the store for cigarettes.
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:53 am to S
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Gary Croatoan aka Les Miles og fall guy.
They were trying to warn us
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:55 am to Pax Regis
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So the Indians enslaved them and forced them to work in a sweltering forge to produce weapons.
Where’s my reparations?
That's probably closer to the truth than assimilation.
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:56 am to Pax Regis
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work in a sweltering forge to produce weapons.
I don't think they had discovered forging much past some tribes hammering natural copper
Posted on 6/7/25 at 11:58 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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John White, the governor of the colony, returned to England for supplies in 1587. When he came back to Roanoke Island in August 1590, he found the settlement mysteriously abandoned – and all the colonists, including his daughter Eleanor Dare and his granddaughter Virginia Dare, gone.
Is this what the story of Pocahontas is modeled after?
Posted on 6/7/25 at 12:05 pm to udtiger
Was never that much of a mystery. There was a nearby tribe of light skinned, English speaking "Indians" but we couldn't figure it out.
Only new thing is that the colonists apparently split up and went different places.
Only new thing is that the colonists apparently split up and went different places.
Posted on 6/7/25 at 12:10 pm to udtiger
By the mid 1600s, NC was becoming well settled by Europeans. A few of those colonists could still have been alive, and certainly their children and grandchildren. Did none of those tribespeople say, yes, my grandparents told me of how they came from across the water? If this is what happened, the mystery should have been solved hundreds of years ago.
Posted on 6/7/25 at 12:22 pm to cbree88
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s this what the story of Pocahontas is modeled after?
No? The story of Pocahontas is modeled after the life of Pocahontas.
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