Episode 24: Roan-Woke

CW: Cannibalism, Murder

The mystery that Virginians adore: CROATOA.

A mysterious message. A disappeared colony. Lots of artifacts and evidence saying that perhaps, just maybe, the dying settlement was less dying so much as… adapted. Depending on your definition of adapted, though… it could be anything. After all, denial is a powerful drug.

This article here takes you to where they talk about the digging, geneology, and so on they’ve been doing around Roanoke to hone in on the truth of what happened to the colony.

For due dilligence, here’s an article from the other side of the argument This article talks directly about the research and digs from the article above.

Here’s a short article from the History Channel that goes over the story of the Roanoke colony.

And if you’re looking for a video, here’s a short one (43 minutes) that goes through the story as well.

This Live Science article talks about the history of the colony, but mostly it talks about the archaeology and some theories we didn’t specifically talk about on the show.

This is a great article from the side of the Roanoke-Hatteras Algonquians, their thoughts on Wanchese and Manteo, and their own oral history regarding the English settlers.

This is the first part of multiple parts of the Roanoke story, a much more detailed account than the one from the History Channel, from the National Park Service.

And some fun theories about what happened to them, just conspiracies really, but fun to spin out into stories if you’re the writing type. We gave you two whole movie plots on their episode. If you write those out, send them to us!