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

To call “The Lost Colony” a hit is a major understatement. On May 29, the outdoor, symphonic drama opens its 88th anniversary ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Lost Colony of Roanoke is ... the home of the indigineous Croatoan people, suggesting the colony members lived alongside them.

Dr. Maynor Lowery, who is Lumbee, added that the “lost colony” story is itself based on the incorrect premise “that Native people also disappeared, which we didn’t.” The story ...

An estimated 4 million people have flocked to the Outer Banks to see “The Lost Colony” since then — many of them repeat viewers — and the play served as training ground for a slew of ...

For 400 years, it’s been called, “The Lost ... people and beheaded people and burnt a village to the ground,” Dawson said. So when Governor John White didn’t return to the colony for ...

The discoveries were also found mixed with soil plowed in subsequent centuries by later settlers and enslaved people. So for now, the smoking gun of the Lost Colony remains an enigma. The ultimate ...

On the North Carolina coast, a 400-year-old unanswered question still piques people’s curiosity ... They become known simply as The Lost Colony of Roanoke. “It’s a mystery that may never be solved,” ...