In this week's episode, an English aristocrat and writer sets out to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America, but the colonists soon disappear, leaving no trace except for a single word carved into a tree. Did they succumb to a deathly illness, or is the truth much more sinister? This is the story of the Roanoke Colony.

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