It's Abbie's birthday episode! For her birthday this year, we're chatting all about one of America's oldest and most confusing mysteries: the lost colony of Roanoke. In this first-part episode, we're focusing on the journey(s) to the 'new world' and everything leading up to the disappearance. While it may not be spooky, the lost colony of Roanoke has so many twists and turns, it's a whole adventure on its own!

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Resources used in this episode:

https://www.npca.org/articles/3604-the-lost-colony-an-outer-banks-mystery

https://www.history.com/articles/what-happened-to-the-lost-colony-of-roanoke

Two Girls one Ghost - Roanoke Part 1 and 2

https://www.firstcolonyfoundation.org/history/the-roanoke-colonies/#gref

https://www.nps.gov/fora/learn/historyculture/1585-the-military-colony.htm

https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/discover/resource-hub/trend-tradition-magazine/trend-tradition-spring-2025/lost-colony/

https://www.nps.gov/fora/learn/historyculture/major-theories-of-the-lost-colony.htm