The Lost Colony of Roanoke - A Historian Reacts (and what I think happened)

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Those poor 3 guys left behind would make an interesting historical fiction story.

[@Enigma_V]

Would make for a great movie. Psychological thriller with survival and perhaps even horror elements.

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Castaway + the lighthouse

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@@Enigma_V Or a "going back to nature"-fiction where they find the real harmony with nature and themselves in the arms of native women ... Which would be BS, but I guess it would sell well^^.

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As a European it's crazy to hear that an 8-10 hour drive to the outer banks is "accessible", haha... That would take me through more than one entire country here...

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It's just what us Americans are used to lol, we either find ways to entertain ourselves on long road trips or drive our friends/family members insane LOL. But yeah sometimes to save money you gotta suck up the long weekend travel or traveling for Holiday

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yea its good to remember the united states is nearly 99% the size of all of europe (and thats WITHOUT alaska our biggest state, or hawaii), the east coast states themselves take up more than twice the land than all of great britain 😂

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@@JubioHDX its 96% with alaska

[@nivyan]

@@JubioHDX It's so funny the US are proud of their diversity, when Europe is literally where that diversity came from.

[@Note-DS]

​@@nivyanWell Europe is a continent whereas the US is just a country. Also Europeans aren't the only people that Americans have ancestors from.

[@kaleba7911]

I'm very surprised there hasn't been a current movie rendition of this entire story. The amount of "he was never seen again" leaves a lot of room for creative story telling as well!

[@phillee2814]

It's kinda risky to put a load of money into an epic movie when there is a chance, however small, that just the renewed interest from it being made might result in some archaeologist shooting down the whole plot by announcing a discovery that overturns the plot a week before the release date.

[@codyeble6764]

No movie but they've had a bunch of episodes on it.. last one I saw was on supernatural, actually one of their better episodes

[@LC-sc3en]

@@phillee2814 Then you make one that is historical fiction. Think that Ancient Aliens guy meme.

[@mooknick242]

well they were obviously killed by indians, the answer is pretty simple they just want to make it a mystery

[@Dornan77802]

I think there were several book series and tv shows (Supernatural being one of them) that have tried to explain the disappearance of the Roanoke colony. The other thing that is unfortunate as well is that the chances of finding any possible descendants after all this time, is all but impossible. The dna traces would be too small to distinguish, and most of the native tribes of the New England region of America were practically wiped out in subsequent epidemics and conflicts with the colonials. There are few descendants today….

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VTH: They were never heard from again Lemmino: They were never heard from again

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[@ConkerVonZap]

Imagine if the person who just wrote "Cro" on the tree didn't know how to spell the name "Croatoan" and everyone assumed all sorts of things. 😂😂

[@meganoob12]

Or he started scratching Cro into the tree just to notice that he we wrote too large to fit it on the tree. So he just had to start over

[@dougearnest7590]

Or some guy named John had only just started carving the word into a tree when John informed him that John already had it covered.

[@Morristown337]

It makes sense that after the first attack a plague spread thru the tribe killing off half the tribe so they marked everything and forbid anyone from going to Roanoke likely thinking it was cursed. The native interested in supplies likely spread illness via the supplies so it makes perfect sense that they would not take the stuff.

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@@Morristown337 I tend to agree with you

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[@ConnecticutAngler]

Assuming that at least some of the colonists did survive, which seems likely as you mention, I try to put myself in their shoes and I can only imagine that they must have lived out the rest of their lives in awe and incredulity that seemingly nobody ever bothered to come and find them.

[@JayStrun]

Most colonists of the time understood (I believe through being told) that a rescue operation was not guaranteed. If they failed to be accounted for, they were most often on their own.

[@ConnecticutAngler]

@@JayStrun although I can't recall seeing that written often into what older journals/accounts I've read (I've hardly read them all), it seems entirely reasonable that a colonist being left in the New World in that era would have had at least an implicit understanding of the risks and realities involved. It's not so much that I think they would've expected some sort of urgent and swift rescue operation, but moreso that some of these people probably lived for decades afterwards, possibly even learning through the grapevine about countless voyages of their countrymen landing in relatively nearby places, and thought," Damn... literally NOBODY could get around to even bothering to try to find us after all these years?" The notion that these rather ordinary, albeit perhaps adventurous, people would've had some sort of unwaveringly stoic commitment to colonization to the point that they would've just dispassionately shrugged their shoulders at the prospect of being left behind forever with no explanation... just seems pretty unlikely to me.

[@christiansaenscheidt9056]

These are people which expected one in three to two of their kids to die and reach an age of around 40. Risks look VERY different when you consider that.

[@meganoob12]

Colonists were usually people who were considered "unwanted" in Europe. They often agreed to go to the new world, because they were outsiders in their own countries anyways. It was common for heretics to join these undertakings. I think they didn't really expect anyone to really care what happened to them.

[@ConnecticutAngler]

I will concede that, no matter how we cut it, trying to imagine the mindset of these folks comes down largely to speculation. Frankly, good points have been made about the general hardships of life in that era and the risks of being a colonist which would've been implied in those days. But I think some of you have very one-dimensional, cartoonish notions about people of that era. People lived harder lives, but they were still people just the same. Even if they were more accustomed to hardship and even if they understood the dangers of remote colonization, they hardly ceased having fears, sorrows, angers, doubts, regrets, etc. They certainly weren't stoic and emotionless, folks. Did they resign themselves to their fate? Some probably did, more as a function of their own personal temperament than anything else. But to think that they all just shrugged when nobody returned... that they never wondered why or what happened... that they never pondered whatever became of friends and family back home... that they never held out hope that one day somebody would return for them... that their thoughts never drifted longingly to land of their birth... well, that's just plain far-fetched. You're painting a picture of these people as virtually non-human. Look at the histories of old European colonies around the world that left us journals and you'll find that people, even in those situations of duress and hardship, still had delicate sensibilities and plenty of capacity for self-reflection and emotion.

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[@111ram1]

I actually had family from the Outer Banks, specifically Nag’s Head, so this has some personal connections. They used to go about with lanterns tied to goats’ heads and “guide” ships to shore i.e. lure them to crash before stealing what they could. They later actually became some of the first members of the Coast Guard. That and I’m related to Sir Walter Raleigh, so that’s double the connection.

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Yea I'm from around Cape lookout and even up till recently if a ship run aground its cargo would probably get stolen. Not that it was possible to recover a lot of them anyway.

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Theres also a sunk u-boat at Cape lookout you can see at low tide if anyone's interested

[@oldeskul]

Illuminaughti did a video on this and she talked about that the local natives had a cultural base with the Algonquin. She talked about that the Algonquin and the peoples who shared a cultural base with them have stories about a malevolent spirit of famine and cannibalism called the Wendigo and that the only way to ward it off was to share your bounty with your neighbors, especially in times of famine. There were stories of various European colonies that had collapsed from famine, poor land management, etc...and that there were oral accounts of the natives living in the areas who would come across horrific sites of starvation and cannibalism out of desperation. The common ways that the natives would deal with cannibalism was to kill the people who had resorted to it,then discard of the body in an unmarked grave or into a river. She surmised that between the famine and growing tensions between the English colonists and the native peoples, the surviving colonists may have been scattered over a wide area of coastal Virginia.

[@RaiZe301]

I'm actually learning this in my history class right now for college! This is good insight as always 👍

[@CaribbeanHistory]

I had recently found some useful information on Roanoke in relationship with the route traced at 3:47 You see that one of the stops in the Caribbean is in Puerto Rico. Ralph Lane and Sir Richard Grenville had landed there with the first colonists in 1585 as a temporary stopping point to gather food, wood and other supplies. They built a fort either named Fort Mosquetal or Fort Elizabeth at the mouth of the Tallaboa river in Penuelas. Today nothing remains of the settlement BUT the British Museum has a map and layout of the fort which may have been used as well to design Roanoke. It's something I would like to share.

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[@isiteckaslike]

"Main/e" is also an archaic/poetic word for "open sea", as well as for "mainland" - it just means the greater part of the land or sea, and apparently was once used in the form "main sea" as well as "mainland". The open sea version of this archaic form is certainly the one I'm more familiar with. In this context, there is no conflict with what John White is saying in that section of his 1590 writings. In this interpretation: He said that when he left the settlers were planning to relocate 50 miles [on an island] more out to sea. When he returned and found Croatoan carved on the settlement gatepost he was even more convinced that that was where they'd gone. Later, at the end of that passage he talks about finding certain trunks which the settlers had buried, including some of his own, which had been opened and the contents thrown around - but that he was happy because at least the fact that they'd been buried gave him great hope that the settlers had made it safely over to Croatoan. (i.e Burying the goods before leaving, presumably to come back for them later.) For me, White is being consistent throughout this passage.

[@stonewall01]

I just went on a map and to find the distance between Roanoke Island and Hatteras. By car take a wild guess at the distance between the two? Approximately 50 miles. For me that is enough to say that is what they meant by going "50 miles into the maine". They were heading for Croatoan or Hatteras. Or at least some of them were.

[@MGWProfessor]

It's amazing how one decision can change the course of history, just as you have mentioned with Napoleon. The decision to drop them off on the wrong island created the history we search for today. I wonder what what would have been the history had the made it to the Chesapeake. No need for Jamestown? History is amazing

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Their is a theory in NC that the lost colony mixed or has some kind of link with the Lumbee Tribe which is in Robeson County.

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Been there a couple of times when I lived in NC. Very cool. Very strange feeling there. Highly recommend a visit.

[@russe11pau1]

My mother's side of the family all descend from the Hatteras and Ocracoke areas and I remember growing up constantly being told that our ancestors were in fact the Lost Colony. Not exactly something we can prove as fact but I think it's very interesting and maybe somewhat telling that my family has been so adamant about this over the course of who knows how many generations, they are probably right.

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Franklin's Lost Expedition is the mystery that catches my eye as well.

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That place is so remote they only found the ships in 2014 (HMS Erebus) and 2016 (HMS Terror) with modern technology

[@trilumn8345]

I've done a bit of recent research on Roanoke and there's two of three points of interest I'd like to mention. Most of my info comes from a researcher named Andy Powell, who traveled to England and did in-depth genealogical studies into the backgrounds of the lost colonists back in the 90s. He has since passed on, but his work is a vital resource in understanding who these people were. That said, here's the first point. 1. Joh White didn't just leave his daughter and granddaughter behind. He was instrumental in forming this expedition. The vast majority of the lost colonists were his close personal friends who he recruited personally and promised a new life to. George Howe was a member of the same guild as Joh White. There was a colonist named Cuthbert White among the lost. A lot of these people attended the same church as Joh White, and there are several family connections among them as well. The colonists argued with White for days to get him to go back. The man did not want to go. 2. Andy Powell does some speculation in his research and I kind of believe one of his hypotheses. Simon Fernandes was a Portuguese pirate who was slated for execution. He was saved from the gallows by Sir Francis Walsingham, the spymaster to Elizabeth I. Walsingham also competed with Sir Walter Raleigh over the charter for the new world and lost out. It's argued quite convincingly by Dr. Powell that Fernandes actively sabotaged the expedition on Walsingham's orders. 3. The last one is more of a bonus fun fact. John Milton, of Paradise Lost fame, had an uncle, henry Milton, who was among the lost colonists.

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[@jasp3rjeep13]

Wanchese is actually a town on Roanoke Island on the opposite side of the island to Manteo. They're a major commercial fishing port. If you've ever watch "Wicked Tuna, Outer Banks" that show is filmed out of Wanchese, NC. Also Croatoan (or Buxton as it's called today) is the current location of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse

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There are now two seperate sites in the area, Site X and Site Y where Elizabethean artifacts have been discovered.

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Really? How far was it from site x?

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[@rmshorty11]

Grew up going to OBX. Been fascinated by the lost colony of Roanoke since I was a kid. This was a great video and I love that you took this subject on. So freaking cool to discuss. It’s almost more fun not knowing what exactly happened since it keeps the theories flowing.

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Ontario license plates? That's interesting, do you know why? I'm interested cause I'm from Ontario and Americans, especially ones not near the border, rarely mention Canadians.

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@@enotsnavdier6867 Well, we usually see Canadians in the summer time. Every time I go to Myrtle Beach.

[@Front-Toward-Enemy]

My guess is the change in Climate and property values? North Carolina and South Carolina is obviously warmer but so is the water. Many of the people who vacation here from out of state, own a beach house or condo. From what I understand, talking to people from up north, everything is cheaper in N.C and S.C, including houses.

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[@justindemski9999]

This was a really well done video and reaction. Enjoyed it. My family has been vacationing there since the 80's and we were just there a month ago. I have been to the fort many times and have seen the lost colony play. Thanks for doing this.

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Really enjoyed your story on this. Being from Hawkins Co., TN hearing you talk a bit about our county made my day.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Been there several times. My 5th great grandfather pastored the Hickory Cove Missionary Baptist Church in Rogersville.

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@@VloggingThroughHistory That's awesome. My father preached there many times. Have to let us know next time you pass through this way.

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Brilliant video and very interesting to hear about your possible family connection. Would love to see more reactions to Lemmino's videos

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Lemino takes a long time to make videos because he does these all by himself on top of English not being his first language; he's Swedish. Would be a dream to see some type of collab between you two

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Lemmino is an absolute legend, so stoked to see you react to his videos as well! As most people here already mentioned, his Bermuda Triangle and Dyatlov Pass videos are excellent, I would also recommend the ones about DB Cooper, Flight 370 and Cicada 3301 (the last one perhaps isn't something you'd ordinarily check out on the channel, but it is an interesting watch, if anything). Keep up the amazing work, and, as always, all the best from Latvia!

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[@helenwood8482]

Both his video and your additional information was fascinating.

[@phillane14]

Really enjoy your videos. Old NC History teacher, born and raised in North Carolina. Got a kick out of the Melungeons article because it was written by William S. Powell, my NC History professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He wrote many, many articles, books and textbooks about our state. Thanks again.

[@Skyeboiii]

Grew up in this area and always fascinated with the history surrounding the area. Big influence on my love of history. Both Wanchese and Manteo have towns named after them adjacent to each other on Roanoke Island. Portions of several movies and shows have been filmed there (Peanut Butter Falcon, Outer Banks, American Horror Story, etc.).

[@ArkydeZomBiez]

YESSS,YESSSSS!! I have been waiting almost a year now. Beautiful! 😘

[@evilsix6149]

Great video VTH!

[@f00dify]

I'm always fascinated and love to learn more about historical periods, but mysteries like Roanoke fascinate me the most. Because with all the tech advancements, even to this day we still haven't solved these mysteries.

[@48musicfan]

Outstanding episode!

[@commandergreetv753]

I must say, that was more exiting/interesting to watch than any movie I have ever seen. And I hope that in the future there will be some evidence to what happened to the tree colonists that were left behind.

[@MarloSoBalJr]

I think their fate is pretty obvious but more or less, they didn't have any supplies or rations to survive even a week. They probably starved more so than killed

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yeeees great choice:) lemminos Jack the ripper video is also brilliant! thankyou for this vid vth:)

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Really got into the channel recently and am very much enjoying it. Love the Sabaton shirt and seems fitting considering the content of their music.

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This is one of my favorite videos to see reactions to.

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[@robertmonroe7930]

There is a town called Wanchese. Its the other end of Roanoke island from Manteo. Its mostly a fishing port now but theres an amazing fish restaurant called the Landing Grill.

[@mr.watson3237]

Wow VTH really knows his Roanoke history.

[@petrhanke8644]

I feel so sorry for Mr. White - almost everything that went South was not by his actions and he could do nothing. Just nothing. He must have died in madness that he left his daughter out there and not knowing what actually happened. It is in my opinion the worst fate - not knowing.

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This is such a cool history topic.. great video

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Haven’t even watched it yet just clicked so it’d be easy to find in my history but boy am I excited for this video!

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Subbed to them. How had I missed that large channel?

[@TheDraconnian]

My uncle adores the Wild West. And not only that, but also the period from the beginning of colonization. He introduced me to books and stories about trappers, the conquest of wild landscapes, the struggles of white people and Indians, and he passed that love on to me. Even today, people in our family call him Mike. Although his real name is Milan (slavic name). The first two stories he taught me were two mysteries. The Lost Colony of Roanoke and Franklin's Expedition. Also, since he plays acoustic guitar, he introduced me to country music, he even wrote some songs himself. Even today, even though I'm not young anymore and I'm 34 years old, when I go to him, it's like a time machine. We sit and talk for hours about American history. We dreamed of going to the USA together and we see some things together. Of course, that is not realistic, but I still believe that at least once I will go and see what we wanted together.

[@phantomtitan9792]

One of my most favorite mysteries and definitely going to subscribe to his channel.

[@queensofthedthrone8267]

Great video, my favorite part was 12:00 because I used to be homeless but used to pound out the rhythms and belt out the vocals to "Blitzkrieg Bop" and now I'm a millionaire.

[@TheWindcrow]

Hey, hey. NE Ohio in the house. Originally from Akron now in Canal Fulton. Came across your channel. Love your videos and I've always loved history.

[@Rednecknerd_rob9634]

Roanoke's always captivated me. To me it might not be all that mysterious. I personally think what happened to them would/or could be a combination of everything mentioned in the video(s). Meaning that I could see some colonists trying to leave but getting lost at sea or getting captured, etc., then the rest potentially separating into 2 groups and relocating and what have you. My line of thinking on Roanoke ties into a lot with regards to history, that being that things aren't just one way or the other, but rather a combination of things (or factors).

[@oopswrongplanet4964]

The History channel narrowed the mystery to 2 possibilities: alien abduction or bigfoot attack.

[@maximilianolimamoreira5002]

why the heck that channel still rely in Alien theories?

[@venedenn1]

I get your sarcasm. That channel has turned into a complete joke over the years

[@colejasso3622]

This video just made my day

[@williamowsley9771]

Fascinating historical mystery.

[@fatfeline1086]

In a search on this topic, i noticed there is suppossed to be a DNA project to determnie the fate of the roanoke colonists. This project started up around 2009 supossedly. Are you familiar with it, and what is your opinion of it?

[@fabriciofreitas7608]

I am so excited to see your reaction to the jack the ripper video

[@solarvortex5793]

Another great mystery he has a video on, DB Cooper. Great video, love to see a reaction

[@thenewb3189]

Was wondering if it was LEMMiNO’s video based off the thumbnail and hell yeah! His content is fascinating and is constantly improving in all areas, hopefully you look into more of his content, particularly his other similar documentary-style videos.

[@stevenballard5490]

I visited the lost colony in august when I was on vacation on hatteras island, outer banks and even went to the Wright brothers museum

[@nom6128]

This crossover is an absolute dream come true for me. Can't wait for you to watch Lemmino's video about Jack The Ripper cuz I've watched it and its absolutely amazing. I'm really looking forward to your reaction on it!

[@5thgen691]

Great video

[@francesco8000]

16:00 i think the reason for arriving in Summer is related to the the long and difficult journey to reach america. I'm not an expert on navigation but i think it's safe to say that traversing the atlantic during winter was not something easy to do at the time. Also arriving in summer is desirable considering that the colonist would have no structures to protect them from the cold and the weather so their first job would be the construction of homes for everyone.

[@Tresorthas]

Also, wind patterns are somewhat seasonal, which ships at the time probably heavily depended on.

[@Tessegg]

To be honest. All Lemmino videos are amazing, would really like for you to watch more off his videos.