In this episode of Deadly Sips, we go over the mystery of when English settlers vanished from Roanoke Island in the late 1500s, they left behind only one cryptic clue carved into a post: “Croatoan.” What happened to them? Where did they go? Grab your drink, sip carefully, and let's get into it. 

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Sources:

“Pottery Fragments May Hold Clues to Roanoke Colonists’ Fate,” Smithsonian Magazine (Smithsonian Magazine)

“The Mystery of Roanoke Endures Yet Another Cruel Twist,” Smithsonian Magazine (Smithsonian Magazine)

NPS, Fort Raleigh — “The Lost Colony,” “1590 Voyage,” “Major Theories of the Lost Colony” pages (National Park Service)

NPCA, “The Lost Colony — An Outer Banks Mystery” (National Parks Conservation Association)

“Lost and Found: The Evidence for the Lost Colony,” Popular Archaeology (on evidence, artifacts, archival integration) (popular-archaeology.com)

Smithsonian / related on metallurgy and Joachim Gans (Smithsonian Magazine)

NPS historical PDF “Adventurers to a New World: The Roanoke Colony, 1585–87” (NPS History)