"It's funny that people still pretend that the colonists carved a mysterious word on a tree — 'Croatoan' — and no one knows ...

The ‘amateur archaeologist’ says he’s discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely vanished from ...

The mystery of what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke has puzzled historians ... and the word “Cro” etched into a tree. Back then, Croatoan was the original name of nearby Hatteras ...

By Alan Yuhas In 1590, the would-be governor of a colony meant to be one of ... who left no clear trace aside from the word “Croatoan” carved on a tree, survived somewhere on the mainland ...

For more than 400 years, the mystery of how 118 colonists just up and disappeared from Roanoke Island in what is now North ...

Dawson, an amateur archaeologist, claims there have been clues throughout the past 430-plus years about the colonists. “The entire concept of the colony being lost is total fiction, Dawson told ...

As the men climbed a sandy bank, they encountered a tree ... colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan ...

The basic beats of the story behind the Lost Colony of Roanoke go something like ... the letters CRO carved into a tree trunk, and the word CROATOAN etched into a wooden post at the entrance ...

It all began in 1587 when more than a hundred English colonists landed on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. This would have been the first permanent English settlement ...

On Aug. 27, 1587, John White, the governor of Roanoke Island colony ... colonists' fate being the words CROATOAN carved on a palisade post and CRO carved on a tree. White believed that they ...