22/12/2025
The Lost Colony of Roanoke is one of the most haunting chapters in early American history. In the late 1500s, over a hundred English settlers arrived on Roanoke Island hoping to build a permanent settlement in the New World. When their leader returned years later, the colony had vanished without a trace. No signs of struggle, no bodies, and no clear answers. Only a single carved word was left behind.
For centuries, historians have debated what really happened. Were the settlers taken in by nearby Native tribes, destroyed by hunger or disease, or lost to an unrecorded conflict? With clues that raise more questions than answers, the Roanoke Colony remains America’s first unsolved mystery.
