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Guide to the Unknown

159: The Lost Colony of Roanoke

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Arts, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

CROATOAN! What does it mean, what does it mean!? Well it means the 1587 colony of Roanoke disappeared and were never seen again. Just what the hell happened?! Well...maybe we know. Maybe we've ALWAYS known. Not only that, but we're going to take a look at the varied ways the legend of the lost colony has appeared in shows like American Horror Story and Sleepy Hollow! Make sure you subscribe to The Boo Crew on Apple Podcasts or wherever you prefer to listen! Get access to monthly bonus podcasts and tons of other content by supporting us through http://www.patreon.com/gttupod! Thank you so much! Get the Blair Witch game at huntakiller.com/blairwitch Read Kristen's writing at huntakiller.com/blog For full sources and links, visit http://www.gttupod.com/home/gttu159 Visit our website for all things Guide to the Unknown at gttupod.com! Watch the video of our conversation at http://www.youtube.com/talkbomb  Follow us online: http://www.instagram.com/gttupod http://www.facebook.com/gttupod http://www.twitter.com/gttupod And join our private Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/gttupod

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0:00.0

The second that you said that somebody named Cricket was in it.

0:02.6

I knew exactly who it was.

0:04.5

It's that man.

0:05.2

Yes, it's that man.

0:06.1

Yes, it's that man.

0:06.5

Hello, welcome to Guide's the unknown. I'm Kristen.

0:14.0

And I'm her little brother William.

0:16.0

And this week we are going to talk about the lost colony of Roanoke,

0:20.0

something I'm so curious about because I have a glancing understanding of what it is.

0:25.8

You can kind of figure it out even from the name.

0:28.1

And I've done mild research myself to do this topic for the show back when Will and I used to each have our own

0:34.9

subjects and it felt too overwhelming so I'm really glad we were able to spread it out

0:39.6

and now we can learn about it. It's really crazy.

0:43.2

So this week on the show, I looked up the history

0:46.5

of the Lost Colony of Roanoke to hopefully tell the true,

0:50.2

with an asterisk, the true story of what happened,

0:52.8

and you're going to be covering the pop culture

0:55.1

representations of that legend.

0:57.8

Yes.

0:58.8

But in doing my research, this story is sprawling and in many ways this sounds trite this sounds I'm about to say somebody that sounds like the hip history teacher in many ways it feels like a story about the discovery of America, but it does it does it does it makes sense

1:18.0

Yeah, it does speaking of which we're releasing this right around Thanksgiving 20-20.

1:23.1

That's right.

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