Researchers say they know what happened to ‘Lost Colony’

https://www.pilotonline.com/news/vp-nw-not-lost-20200817-qgmblubzt5dyjm3jrcop25ssoq-story.html

by alistairSH • 6 years ago

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nick_kline• 6 years ago

Summary - moved to join a nearby friendly native American tribe, already suggested by others.

There are endless different stories about the lost colony. This explanation sounds simple and compelling (they moved in with a friendly tribe, the Croatoans). Wikipedia [1] discusses this in more detail and points out that there was a smallpox infection that killed a lot of the Croatoans a few years later. I'd think there might be the possibility of genetic testing to connect any present day people with the group from England.

The speculation was the people from England moved to Hatteras Island and joined that tribe, but the original explorer didn't come back for three years and never went to that Island. Hatteras is about 50 miles away, not that far by sailing, especially if you crossed the ocean.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatan

fred_is_fred• 6 years ago

Not far by sailing but home to dangerous shoals and treacherous currents, although in this time period I am unsure if that was known or not.

Covered a bit here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Shoal_Light

topher200• 6 years ago

A great video on the different theories of the Lost Colony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTOKRWgjOlg

Lammy• 6 years ago

Lost Colony of Roanoke, in present-day North Carolina.

Terrible title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony

Jaruzel• 6 years ago

Archive copy for people blocked due to GDPR:

http://archive.is/Va3MA

Researchers say they know what happened to ‘Lost Colony’

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