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Welcome to Tales to Terrify. Good evening, Children of the Night. Just a reminder, two more weeks until our 200th episode.

Our trip south for the summer brings us to one of the United States most widely and wildly puzzled over mystery in the history of white people on this continent, the lost colony of Roanoke.

On the 25th of March way back in 1584,

Elizabeth I first queen of England granted Sir Walter Raleigh

a charter for the colonization of North America.

A few years ago, while vacationing in the area,

I was educated that the charter was for the entire continent,

and furthermore, Raleigh himself had not visited North America

a single time in his entire life. However, the venture to establish his colony began with a survey

expedition led by two men, Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlow. The trip established communication

with two local tribes, the Sectoransans and the Kro Atoans.

They returned to England with two Kroatoans, seemingly without having to do any enslavement or kidnapping of any sort.

One of the two's name was Manio, which is spelled M-A-N-T-E-O.

There is a coastal town in North Carolina of the same name,

and the people around there have instructed me that is pronounced Manio,

despite there being a T in the word.

My Ohio and tongue and my GPS device have a very difficult time omitting that consonant.

The information provided by the two natives was enough to mount a second expedition led by Sir Richard Grenville.

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