S1 Ep9: Roanoke: That Time 100 People Vanished for No Reason

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

Society & Culture, Science, True Crime

4.0 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

So... we still don't know what happened, you guys. BUT 420ish years ago, a bunch of white people tried to form a colony in present-day North Carolina. It didn't go great. The dude whose idea it was LEFT, and when he came back, everyone was gone. We have no idea what happened to them... but it won't stop us from guessing. You're welcome.

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0:34.2	How could 100 people vanish off the face of the earth without leaving a single trace?
0:41.7	Were they attacked?
0:42.8	Did they intentionally disappear?
0:45.3	Did they not want to be found?
0:47.3	Did a zombie virus get them?
0:50.4	And why did no one really go looking for them until centuries later?
0:54.6	Today we'll learn about the fine line between being intrepid and being just plain stupid.
1:02.1	We're about to go on a 400-year-old journey to try to figure out how a group of people
1:06.2	could be someplace halfway around the world and then just disappear, leaving behind only
1:12.5	a single cryptic clue.
1:15.7	I'm your host, Daisy Egan, and this is Strange and Unexplained.
1:20.3	Each week I pick a part in a vent or phenomenon with my own brand of saltiness and usually
1:25.2	end up hiding under the covers.
1:28.2	Oh, to be alive in England in the 1500s.
1:36.1	I'm not going to do a deep dive into it.
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