The Lost Colony of Roanoke - MCP Remastered

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Originally published as 'Lost' on Nov 14, 2016, this remastered episode was published on Patreon on June 18th, 2024.

"Before the colony of Jamestown, another colony attempt was made on Roanoke Island. After several years and many unfortunate events, the people and the village seemingly disappeared. The Colony of Roanoke is known as the Lost Colony, and it's not as lost as you might think."

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0:00.0	This episode was suggested by a listener, Emily. If you'd like to suggest a topic, you can do so on Facebook and Instagram at Morbid Curiosity Podcast or on our website www.morbidcuriositypodcast.com.
0:16.9	This episode contains discussions of colonialism, violence against indigenous peoples, a brief mention of sexual assault and enslavement.
0:26.3	If these topics are triggers for you, this may be a good episode to skip. Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
0:49.3	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped millions of
0:56.0	people throughout the ages. I am one of those people. My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid
1:03.5	Curiosity podcast.
1:28.7	Thank you. I love visiting historic places. I visited Jamestown, one of the first settlements of British colonists in North America when I was about 10 years old. While I was there, some of the reenactors spoke of another colony, one that was
1:35.0	established before Jamestown. This colony didn't survive to be preserved. When I asked why,
1:42.1	they replied that the colony had simply disappeared.
1:45.0	That colony was Roanoke, known to many as the lost colony.
1:51.0	In reality, settlements don't just disappear, and that's true for Roanoke.
1:57.0	What the legend leaves out is that Roanoke didn't vanish. It was abandoned. Why it was abandoned
2:03.6	and where the people went is still a bit of a mystery. During the late 16th century, England was on
2:12.2	the periphery of Europe. Spain was the dominating force on the continent, supported and enriched by its new world colonies.
2:20.3	England did its best to interrupt these riches from reaching Spain by enlisting privateers,
2:26.3	basically government-sanctioned pirates to prey upon Spanish ships.
2:31.3	One of the most well-known of these was Sir Francis Drake, or as the Spanish called him,
2:36.5	El Drache, the dragon. While he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for his services to the crown,
2:43.4	the Spanish accounts speak of him as no more than an infamous and bloodthirsty pirate. Of course,
2:50.2	the Spanish had their own privateers seizing English
2:52.9	ships, so neither were without fault. However, Spain's colonies in the New World, what we now
2:59.8	call North and South America, seemed to be the key to their success. The Spanish had set about
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