107 - The Lost Colony of Roanoke

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Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 100 minutes

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In 1587, Englishman John White led a group of 118 colonists to what was supposed to Roanoke Island. One hundred fifteen of those colonists were never seen again after White returned to England to get word to Sir Walter Raleigh that the colonists desperately needed supplies. On August 18th, 1590, John White returned to Roanoke three years after leaving to get those supplies and found the settlement completely deserted and the word “Croatoan” carved into a fence post. And historians, archaeologists and others have been trying to figure out what happened to those initial settlers ever since. Hear there story and take a look into the most popular possibilities, today, on Timesuck! Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 3000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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0:00.0	On July 4, 1584, English explorer sent by Sir Walter Raleigh landed on Roanoke Island
0:06.4	and what is now the area known as the Outer Banks North Carolina. Roughly 8 miles long and 2
0:11.2	miles wide, the little island lies just about 2 miles off Man's Harbor on the mainland
0:16.2	and less than a mile from the barrier islands near Nag's Head. Good spot for settlement,
0:20.7	barrier islands protecting you from the full fury of the Atlantic and a couple miles of water
0:25.2	between you and possible hostile forces on the mainland. The fortification possibilities of an
0:30.2	island with easy canoe access to the mainland. After an initial botched attempt to establish
0:35.8	a settlement there, Raleigh sent a second group of colonists in 1587 led by John White.
0:40.3	Within he brought his adult daughter, Eleanor White, Dair, his son-in-law,
0:44.7	and a nice, a stone mason. Soon after they arrived, Dair gave birth to a daughter who she named Virginia.
0:50.4	And Virginia Dair was the first English child to be born in the present day United States.
0:55.5	The 117 colonists of this second attempt arrived too late to plant crops and their situation quickly
1:02.5	grew desperate. They persuaded White to return to England to plead for help it didn't work.
1:06.8	White arrived amid the Anglo-Spanish war, meaning every English ship had been commandeered to fight
1:12.0	the Spanish Armada. White wouldn't return to Roanoke for three years. When he finally did make it
1:17.3	back, he found the Roanoke colony utterly vacant and strangely so. There were no skeletal remains
1:22.4	indicating that settlers had been attacked. Also, the fort had been carefully dismantled,
1:26.6	showing that they hadn't left in a hurry. And on a fence post, someone had carved the word
1:31.6	Croatohan, the name of a group of American Indians nearby. And scholars, archaeologists,
1:36.9	and others have been trying to figure out what the hell happened to those first colonists ever since.
1:41.7	Where did they go? What was their fate? Let's dig into the most enduring and vexing mystery of
1:47.0	pre-colonial American life today on a perplexing edition of Time Suck. Happy Monday, Time Suckers,
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