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Sir Walter Raleigh's Colony Vanished Over 400 Years Ago. Scientists Are Still Looking
NPR ^ | JOE HERNANDEZ | September 16, 2021

Posted on 09/16/2021 6:13:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

Gave me a few bad dreams as a kid.

So did Project UFO.


21 posted on 09/16/2021 6:30:44 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: nickcarraway
This thing was solved years ago .
The survivors merged with the closet Tribe they were friends with.
They aligned to ward off a hostile tribe in the area.
22 posted on 09/16/2021 6:31:27 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the r)
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To: no-to-illegals

“ever tried to stand up in a hurricane ?”

No, but I’ve seen pallets flyin’ by like frisbees.

When I was out in micronesia before big storms the island I was on would try to strip off their coconuts off the trees.

I asked somebody why and they answered me a question; “have you ever been hit in the head with a 95 mile an hour coconut?”


23 posted on 09/16/2021 6:34:23 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: nickcarraway

The entire colony of the unvaxxed died of COVID-19 400 years ago. They didn’t even wear masks! THAT’s just how deadly this virus really is. It can travel centuries back in time and kill everybody without even leaving a trace!


24 posted on 09/16/2021 6:35:03 PM PDT by cdcdawg (The vaccines don't work)
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To: Beowulf9
“ Sir Walter Raleigh, a famed English explorer and among Queen Elizabeth I’s favorite subjects” until she had him beheaded.

Sorry, Queen Elizabeth was dead for 14 years when Raleigh got the chop. Even James I didn't want to do it, but the Spanish insisted.

25 posted on 09/16/2021 6:35:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ncalburt

The survivors merged with the closet Tribe they were friends with.
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A closet tribe, huh?

And then they went extinct?


26 posted on 09/16/2021 6:41:41 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: nickcarraway

Much of the area likely still holding evidence/artifacts from the colony leaving is currently a live-fire military training area. Searching for historical objects is ... discouraged.


27 posted on 09/16/2021 6:43:56 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
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To: ncalburt
This thing was solved years ago .The survivors merged with the closet Tribe they were friends with. They aligned to ward off a hostile tribe in the area.

Really? What evidence is there for this?

28 posted on 09/16/2021 6:48:12 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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To: nickcarraway

Native Americans ate them all.


29 posted on 09/16/2021 6:50:11 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: nickcarraway
Protestants were not allowed intermarriage with natives. If they did have marriage with locals, they were certainly cut off from their Protestant sect and left on their own.

English Protestants were forbidden to marry natives but French Catholics were allowed to take Indian wives.

The Saponi Indians appear as a mix of Anglo and Native.

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/saponi-tribe

In theory, Roanoke was not so much lost as it was mixed in with locals and outcast as a result. This is a possibility.

30 posted on 09/16/2021 6:51:10 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Beowulf9

Not Elizabeth, but James the1st. Executed on On October 29, 1618.


31 posted on 09/16/2021 7:01:02 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Paladin2

Yes. They use the scientific method.

But they are also mixed in with historians.

They are some of the most fascinating people one could ever meet.


32 posted on 09/16/2021 7:05:02 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: nickcarraway
I heard they were visiting the Anasazi.

If they were, it would have been quite a trek getting from Roanoke Island to Arizona, as Route 60 had yet to be built.

33 posted on 09/16/2021 7:07:48 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: nickcarraway

“The only clues left that gave any hint to the fate of the colonists of Roanoke was the word “Croatoan” carved into a fence post and the letters “CRO” carved into a tree. All of the buildings had been disassembled, so the people had not been forced to leave in a hurry. The colonists were instructed to carve a Maltese cross in a tree if they were compelled to leave against their will. There was no Maltese cross found at the site. White assumed, with all of these clues, that the colonists had moved to the nearby Croatoan Island, but bad weather prevented him and his men from going to look for them. His men wouldn’t go with him to look for the missing colonists, and they left the next day.”

https://historycollection.com/lost-colony-roanoke-8-theories-mysterious-island-inhabitants/


34 posted on 09/16/2021 7:12:40 PM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: nickcarraway

according to History Channel, they were abducted by aliens.


35 posted on 09/16/2021 7:13:07 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: fabjr60

What does it mean, I have not heard that before?


36 posted on 09/16/2021 7:18:14 PM PDT by Kenny500c ( )
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To: Hostage

The Lumbee are thought to be the descendants of the Lost Colony.

Everyone in America knew the story well into the 1940s as the birthday of Vrginia Dare - thought to have been taken into the Lumbee tribe - was celebrated even at the federal level.

Heather Locklear is a Lumbee tribal member - her family name is common in that tribe - and may represent the genetics passed down from the Lost Colony.


37 posted on 09/16/2021 7:19:55 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Whatever Works

There are some really fascinating theories, facts and evidence posted on this site if you are interested.

https://historycollection.com/lost-colony-roanoke-8-theories-mysterious-island-inhabitants/2/


38 posted on 09/16/2021 7:23:20 PM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: BipolarBob
 
 
Born in lust, turn to dust
 
Born in sin, come on in...
 
 

39 posted on 09/16/2021 7:23:40 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: fidelis

A research study done a few years ago ,
They were absorbed by a local friendly tribe they traded with .
Someone just posted about that tribe.


40 posted on 09/16/2021 7:25:33 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the r)
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