There's not much that can get the heart thumping like a good ole urban mystery. Mix in a lost baby girl, a potential massacre, and an overwhelming lack of evidence, and you have an enduring legend, one that has sparked imaginations throughout the centuries. Few legends capture the American imagination more than the Lost Colony of Roanoke. The colony, which was established in 1587, consisted of men, women, and children and was the hopeful project of John White and Sir Walter Raleigh, both of England. However, by 1590, when John White returned to North America to check on the colony, all of the settlers had vanished. There was a single clue: "CROATOAN", carved into a tree. Lawler does not quite believe in the concerned colonial rescuers theory. Since then, rumors, theories, and speculations have swirled around the colony and its missing inhabitants. Local assimilation, a massacre, disease, and alien abduction are just a few of the theories explaining the disappearance...
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