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Hello, very welcome back to another brand new episode of Decoding the Unknown, the

show where we Decode the Unknown.

More accurately, Casey, the fine writer on this channel,

decodes the unknown and then I read it and add some stupid comments and then

Jen afterwards and some images

if you're watching the video and some music and some sound effects if you're listening as a podcast well as a video you get them both

But yeah this show is a YouTube channel and a podcast so yes welcome let's jump in. We're talking about Roanoke. It's a colony that disappeared right?

Weirdly enough, I was just watching an episode of The Blacklist that uh, uh, James Spader show and there was a guy called Roanoke and I can't remember why it was something to do with this colony.

I might have fallen asleep. The Blacklist got really weird in the later seasons.

I'm like just what is going on. We're not talking about the Blacklist today, so let's move on to the actual content that you're

here for, yes?

The Lost Colony of Roanoke is one of those enduring historical mysteries that refuses to be definitively sold.

Solved. And as time goes by, more and more theories get added to the mix. To give you a very brief history, Queen Elizabeth I wanted to colonize the new world and had

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