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Roanoke: A Colony. A Word. A Vanishing.

7 episodesabout 2 min each

Roanoke: A Colony. A Word. A Vanishing.

A hundred and eighteen settlers put ashore on the wrong island, and a skeleton waiting for them.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 2: The Skeleton Waiting at Roanoke Locked1:39 A ship captain forces 118 settlers onto the wrong island, where a skeleton and a killing announce that Roanoke is already dangerous.
  2. Episode 3: The Baby Born Inside a Failing Colony Locked1:32 Virginia Dare is born into a settlement already threatened by violence, hunger, winter, and the departure of her grandfather.
  3. Episode 4: The Smoke Above the Missing Colony Locked1:41 Three years after leaving his family, John White returns to Roanoke and sees what looks like a signal from the shore.
  4. Episode 5: The Footprints Made During the Night Locked1:34 The hopeful smoke collapses into a false alarm, but fresh-looking tracks and carved letters draw White deeper into the abandoned island.
  5. Episode 6: The Fortress That Replaced Their Houses Locked1:14 Roanoke appears abandoned without a distress signal, but its dismantled homes, new palisade, and scattered weapons suggest a deliberate departure.
  6. Episode 7: The County Where Survivors May Have Gone Locked1:36 After weather ends White's rescue, centuries of traditions and competing theories move the search beyond Roanoke Island.
  7. Episode 8: The “First” Colony That Arrived Millennia Late Locked2:01 The possible survivor trails remain unproven, leaving Roanoke's enduring legacy in the Indigenous history, archaeology, and preserved landscape of the island.

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