#4 BEST OF 443 THE LOST COLONY (PT 1) THE DARE STONES

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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I have added an introduction for this "Best of" episode., which was one of my favorites to make. This is the #4 listener favorite of the 443 (actually 447) 1001 Heroes episodes we have done over 9 years. This one was done in 2017. Part 2 contains an interview with Fred and Katherine Willard, directors of The Lost Colony Center For Science & Research, who are known for their tireless work to identify where the 115 men, women and children that made up "the lost colony" ended up and why they disappeared. Fred passed not long after our in=person interview in Chesapeake in 2017. Here are the notes for part one: "The Lost Colony Part 1: The Dare Stones": In 1587, 115 men, women, and children were delivered to Roanoke Island on the Carolina coast with the hopes of beginning a new English colony in the New World. Storms and war with Spain prevented any supply ships from reaching them for three years, and when the ships arrived, they found the fort deserted, and the word "Croatoan" carved onto the fort's palisade walls. The 115 settlers were gone, leaving no trace, until 1937, when a traveler named Hammond found a large stone at the side of a North Carolina road containing what appeared to be a desperate chiseled message from Eleanor Dare. More stones were found, each containing a clue to the whereabouts of the surviving colonists. They came to be called The Dare Stones. The first stone contained this carved inscription, written in the Elizabethan dialect: https://nativeheritageproject.com/2013/12/08/the-dare-stones-1-through-48/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the best of one thousand one heroes, legends, histories and
0:04.9	mysteries podcast. This is your host John Haggadorn. As most of you know, we have
0:10.8	recently pulled the listener counts for one,001 heroes to find out where each of our 443 episodes
0:17.1	ranks as a listener favorite. And our two episode story at the Lost Colony came in number four favorite of 443 episodes. The
0:26.0	Lost Colony which is the story of the unknown fate of 115 men, women, and
0:31.5	children who volunteered to try to colonize the southeast coast of the US in 1587
0:37.0	is the greatest unsolved mystery of North America.
0:42.0	This was an exciting story for me because I was and am very familiar
0:46.0	with the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I live in Virginia Beach just about an
0:49.9	hour and 20 minutes north of there, and I visit there often.
0:54.0	And the Mantio area, where these first settlers built a fort and tried to manage relations
0:58.6	with the local Indians.
1:00.3	I've walked the grounds, studied the story, and as you'll find in part two,
1:04.4	interviewed the researcher who helped break the story of just what did happen to
1:08.6	this brave bunch of early pioneers,
1:10.6	for that's what they were,
1:11.9	pioneers in the true sense of the word.
1:15.0	Part one opens with you, the listener, alone, in the woods, trying to chisel a cry for help into a large stone while remembering the excitement that you
1:24.6	and your spouse felt when leaving the life you knew so well in London behind to
1:29.2	join this group as they headed for unexplored territory in a new world.
1:34.0	Your hope was that this message that you belonged to a handful of survivors after an Indian attack,
1:40.0	that your spouse was no longer with you and that you had escaped inland would be found by rescuers.
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