The world is full of enigmas that baffle even the sharpest minds. From missing people to unsolved crimes, these mysteries ...

The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a 16th-century "Lost Colony." ...

The lost colonists left behind one clue: 'Croatoan'. Show more The lost colonists of Roanoke left behind a clue about their fate, the word 'Croatoan' carved into a tree.

The Lost Colony of Roanoke is one of the United States’ most ... 1845 illustration depicting colonist John White discovering the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted ...

and president of the Croatoan Archaeological Society, did not find the buildings or the bodies that once populated the colony at Roanoke. But he, alongside archeologist and TV presenter Mark ...

Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke ... White and others finding a tree carved with the words “Croatoan” on Roanoke Island, North Carolina ...

The map in question—created by a governor of the colony ... and others as they find a tree into which the word "CROATOAN" had been carved on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1590.

Roanoke Colony was found abandoned without a trace of the colonists—but some researchers might have uncovered ... the words "Croatoan" carved into a fort's gatepost and "Cro" etched into a tree.

We Finally Have Clues to How the Lost Roanoke Colony Vanished. ... the word “Croatoan” carved on a prominent post and “Cro” etched into a tree. Ever since, explorers, historians, ...

The story of the “lost colony” of Roanoke is well known today ... The only evidence they found was the words “CROATOAN” and “CRO” carved into a tree at the colony’s border, which ...