The Mysterious Disappearance of Roanoke Colony
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John White: _leaves for supplies but doesn't come back_ The entire colony: *Aight Imma head out*
"Aight! Imma...." I'm stunned that people actually speak this way. "Aight" is one of the stupidest thing I've ever heard. To think it's deliberate 😐
@@audreyann1975 ok boomer
audrey ann Quiet your extra chromosomes
audrey ann omg shut up
@@audreyann1975 boomer alert
Ryan: *explains what aglets are* Me: Sir, please, I've seen Phineas & Ferb.
🎼Don’t forget it!
Same!
Thats how i learned what they are
Me, a veteran:
A-G-L-E-T (AGLET!) DON'T FORGET IT!
I honestly think they just moved to Croatoan. They probably got tired of waiting for John (since he was gone for 3 years) or they thought he died and wouldn't return so they just left. They had no food and proper water supply so they weren't just gonna keep waiting. They must've made peace with the natives and lived among them
Legit that's very likely what happened if I remember right the local people say they moved there and lived with them Like they left a note what more do you want
Honestly, I think the locals killed and ate them
@@kibz2005 but there probably would have been signs of the colony fighting back bc i doubt they’d just come along to be eaten willingly, there were a decent number of them after all
@@kibz2005 The locals in that area were never cannibals though, so that seems pretty unlikely.
Or maybe they moved inland
Everyone: Wow, this is such a mystery! What happened? This is so unbelievable. The pale, blue-eyed blond people + mixed kids witnessed living with the Croatoan tribe: Yeah, that sure is weird.
Ngl y’all should dna test the Croatoan ancestors to see if their is any evidence of being related to the Dare’s
@@seanydeasthis 😂 we have DNA testing for a reason, why isn’t anyone using it? if they had children they’ll have descendants. if they weren’t abducted and killed someone literally would’ve left and came forward
@@elrose171 Well by now, enough of the people would have married and had childeren, that all the way down the family tree the original DNA of the colonizers would have dwindled (Take this with a grain of salt, I'm no expert)
I think what’s being suggested is taking DNA tests of the skeletons from around the same time period to see if the results match up.
@dragonwings1273 were the skeletons preserved well enough to even do that?
John White: brb Roanoke Colonists: ✔️ Read at 1587
From Colonists Delivered 3yrs Ago *opens snap* Croatoan Hmm I don’t know what this means definitely not the island right beside me.
damn why didn’t John White just look at snapmap it would’ve solved the whole mystery
I laughed at the comment pretty hard and cried from laughter by the comments of the comment.
John white: *leaves for 3 years* Colonists: *vanish* John white: oMg hOw diD tHiS HaPpEN
Lol
How the hell does this have 1 reply???
Butthole
Coochies
3 years.... 3 years.....
they left a note. they literally told people where they went.
Thats the issue with unsolved cases or mysteries. You can have circumstantial evidence but if you have no concrete proof then there will be so many theories, situations, or possible scenarios. I dont think that word is concrete proof, yeah it s circumstantial for sure, but since John white didnt ever reach it we dont know
@@thatloserkyle I think the fact that the local Croatoan tribe at the time started having blonde and blue eyed kids with western surnames born and that the local tribes literally stated the settlers joined their tribe is pretty solid evidence
@@emilybarclay8831yeah but there’s literally zero evidence of this. it’s ONLY stories and old rags which could’ve belonged to a number of settlers. there’s no DNA, there are multiple tribes claiming they’re from the croatoan and have descendants but none of them have been tested, no one’s even tried.
@@emilybarclay8831Nah, it was aliens from outer space. All evidence points to the entire colony having been abducted by flying saucers, never to be seen again by the rest of humankind. It’s the only plausible explanation…that or a grizzly encounter with Bigfoot. /s
By missing colony, what the history books really mean is the colony said exactly where they went and the one dude who could follow up on it just never checked because it was too hard and he gave up.
Yup
If John White isn’t back in 15 minutes, we can leave the colony
Maybe the island glitched out and they just clipped below the world geometry. So they're stuck below the surface and can't path out again.
It just ,,,,,,,,, works
Patrolling Roanoke Island almost makes you wish for some native booty.
TealWolf26 sounds like a game Todd made
4x The size of Fallout 4
John white: this year i lost my dear colony The colony: actually we just moved in with these native Americans John white: sometimes I still hear their voices
Violet Hetherington Awesome, a Brother Bear reference!
Roanoke colony: white mystery
screamingggg
Stop telling everyone I’m dead!
🤣🤣🤣
“It took 3 f*cking years!”... currently watching this 3 years later:)
You’re watching in the 1500s?
3 yrs after the upload not 3 yrs after they disappeared😅
me too :)
Haha same lol... Takes time to discover gems...
Same 😂
If they weren't just simply at Croatoan, then the cannibalism theory makes sense to me. They needed supplies and food and had to wait almost three more years for it. People in history have caved to that plenty of times before.
they were lol, it was actually solved
If you ever feel sad about being ghosted just remember John White was ghosted by an entire town lmaooo
🤦♀️😄🤣
But I bet the town felt like John white ghosted them too
"I swear to god, if he tells me out his MLM *one* more time, I'm gonna fucking lose it!"
i understand him, I got ghosted by my crush
oh hey, we have the same pfp except yours is a little cooler
left brain: they just went with the tribe, the tribe just started “mysteriously” having blonde hair & blue eyes children, it’s not rocket science right brain: zömbiî apökâlypsš
Full brain: they hid and later snuck onto a slaver ship, leading to the existence of the song “cotton eye joe” by causing one of the slaves to have blue eyes
JJ you know what, you are absolutely correct
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@@JJ-oe5tm 😂😂🤫😁
I'm curious if the experts bothered to ask oh, idk...the Native Americans whose ancestors were literally on the same island at the same time that the colonists disappeared? I swear to god if this is another Easter Island 'mystery' that's not actually a mystery because the Native people had (at least some of ) the answers - I'm gonna go insane.
A lot of native American history was wiped out by colonists.
Your going to go insane sorry if I'm remembering right the locals said the Roanoke colony moved in with them
Local native tribes told William Stryker (secretary of the Jamestown colony) that most, if not all of the missing colony lived in the Chesapeake area with the native tribe there. Also, the chief of the Powhatan tribe said that the colony moved in with the Chesapeake natives, but they were slain in battle. (He allegedly told John Smith this and it was recorded by Stryker)
Lack of written records and a degree of uncertainty about *whose* ancestors the local tribes actually are serve as the answer to this. It's a question that's been the subject of active research for more than four centuries, if there was an easy answer actually supported by anything of value, someone would have gotten rich writing a book about it. There are native groups that identify as descendants of the local tribes and the missing colonists today, but that's more a matter of them adopting a popular explanation than anything like them having an accurate oral history of anything like it.
@@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013 Oral traditions are usually pretty good among the tribes. The bigger issue you run into is when tribes intermingle and end up with multiple stories as to where they came from. for example the Cherokee moved from an Island to the southeastern US. they lived among the Iroquois who were originally from the southeastern US until a territorial dispute caused a war that lasted a least 100 years and ultimately forced the Iroquois to move north. Both the Cherokee and the Seneca tell this story and it is backed up with a quite a bit of evidence. As of today the official record still states that the cherokee speak and Iroquoian language (due to shared words) and that they are just a group of Iroquois that split off and traveled south from the great lakes region.
the voice in which Shane said NO. OUR FRIEND IS COMING BACK AND HES GONNA BRING US BLANKETS absolutely sent me
Tbh, the colonists probably thought John white abandoned them, and with no supply’s, they wandered off.
Makes sense since John White was gone for 3 years.
They said naw
Most likely. No supplies means time to bounce.
Kira Sedayao that got me 🤣
They went to the one native tribe that liked them. Archaeologists even found some artifacts where the tribe lived that only colonists would have.
My history teacher thought this was a legit history channel video and turned it off after the 2 f bombs, it was hilarious 🤣
Haha did they not watch it in advance. This just shows that they had no idea what to teach so just decided maybe a video will help.
I would show this to a bunch of teenagers
ATSHDJFJ
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Yo 😭 That’s great
The tribe that I am a part of is believed to be direct descendants of the Roanoke colony. It's been talked about for generations.
Is it the Lumbee tribe of Sampson County or Robeson???
Fascinating! Which tribe are you from?
17:22 ok that was a genius move. Now I need new pants.
LMAOA
yeah i was gonna say why no one is talking about that part
Anybody remember the episode of Spongebob where the whole town left for "No Spongebob Day" well this is like that but instead its "No John White Day" except it's an entire lifetime.
LMFAO
LOL good one
Madison Penney ayyyy 👉😉👉
No John white FOREVER Join us in leaving this idiot! Get your tickets to Croatian for only 1.99!!
@@maybooe22 count me in
Everyone: "*OMG ROANOKE IS SO MYSTERIOUS AND TERRIFYING*" croatoan natives: had "mysterious" blonde haired and blue eyed children, and english artifacts
It’s obvious what happened, they joined the natives like many settlers did when things got hard during that time. They became white natives. There was a drought and no food, the only people conditioned to live there were the natives and the settlers had no other choice.
And maybe some of the ones who didn't, are the ones who resorted to cannibalism
@Ben from smart house that was actually pretty common, a lot of settlers found the native american lifestyle appealing so they left english colonies. they talk about it in Lies My Teacher Told Me
@@atme365 but they didn't find any bones right? That's one hitch in the whole cannibalism theory.
@@lordofassassins11 they must have slurped those bones up
Roanoke always interested me. I remember learning about it in school and seeing videos about it that intrigued me. But I never knew Croatoan was an island. I always thought it was a mystery word. I don't remember anything ever saying it was an actual place. That really takes a big chunk of the mystery away.
The old days seemed crazy. Almost no communication . People would just go for a walk and never come back
I love that they know the fans hate the mannequin, so they make it move it’s head in the middle of filming
Literally like almost peed I was like wtf
@@nordichope7301 17:22
I had just finished loading my grandson's toy gun, the kind with those ends that stick to things when they hit, when I saw the mannequin move. In surprise, I unintentionally pulled the trigger, and hit the screen where it's head was.
How r u sure it was them
That was so creepy lol
Colonists: we were taken in by the croatoan tribe, we even left a note saying where we went, you can even see our descendants in the tribe John White: hmm it’s a mystery I guess we’ll never know
THANK YOU!
@@SilverSting420 This is just white denial. Their people integrated with the local natives to survive, so they pretended they just vanished.
LITWRALIY
@@maestromazmorra9597 or they probably said that they killed them to be angry at them for no reason lmaoo if there's one thing colonizers are good at, it's being an ass to native tribes for no reason.
@@maestromazmorra9597 white people think they were so superior to Native Americans in the 1500s that there was no way after a few months the people of Roanoke were just like “okay we can starve to death or we can try to show that we’re peaceful to these Native Americans and hopefully gain some food, shelter, and maybe take a bath whatever that is”. Like after 6 months they probably gave up on him coming back and just got down on their knees and begged a tribe to help them out, once they intermingled and found that the tribe was human (wow! Shocker!) they just stayed. White supremacy kind of goes out the window when the only options are death and mixing. Maybe one dude went back to Roanoke and wrote where they went, maybe there were other more temporary notes left like a paper that got lost in the wind or a message written in the sand. Edit: fixed a were->where
21:20 why is this whole bit so amusing to me, ryan going “feed me more bullets yeahh” is just amazing
I enjoy Shane saying "He was on drugs, Ryan!"
I love how despite being stupendously easy to figure out what happened here this is treated as a mystery. They left a note, now I grant you it wasn’t a good note but some pretty basic application of critical thinking answers this question in a fairly logical way. Lacking supplies, the desperate remaining colonists ether joined or were forced to serve a nearby tribe of Native Americans. Mystery solved.
The mannequin always freaks me out, but it's worse when you see it moving.
What do you mean
@@nasathefrogface5366 17:22
Same..
I screamed when I saw that 😻🙏🏼
Have you noticed that the MIB mannequin always move whenever there's a reference of aliens? You can see it move in other vids too.
*mannequin starts to move* Everyone: aight imma head out
ok
😂 “aight imma head out ✌️”
Smitty WerbenJagerManJensen mood
At 17:20 it moved.
That's so scary 😫😫😫
I love how Shane's holding a ball and continuously squeezing it just knowing things are gonna get messy in this mystery, just to finally throw it angerly
Is NO ONE going to comment about the mannequin’s head moving on its own at the 17:20 mark?!?!? 😱😱😱😱😱
damn how nobody saw that
apparently on reddit they said that they did it on purpose since so many viewers said they hate the mannequin
I also noticed that 😱
Oh yeah. That happens every once in a while
You just gotta let it do its thing
Ryan's theories are so ridiculous, even the mannequin had to give him a judgmental look.
😂😂Truue
😂😂😂 Well some of them are but I think everyone has had a time where they have a ridiculous theory
Did you see the manniquen head move at 17:20
I can kinda buy the 1st, 2nd, and possibly the 3rd and 5th, I only think that the 5th theory is a little bent up, the colonists could very well have eaten each other but I only think this was due to survival, there were similar cases of cannibalism in other early American colonies, due to running out of supplies, food, or being locked in their fort area by the natives, and they sent White to gather supplies, they could have ate the least likely to survive and the remaining settlers starved due to no one else on the island, a zombie plauge just seems ridiculous.
@@allthelanguages7945 I did to and it freaked me out
What if he just sailed to the wrong island
Lps Soup that’s hilarious to think about
Omg that's actually possible 😂
Then it probably wouldn’t have the word on the tree
@@averylester8191 ok 7 u thou îooooi
Circumnavigation was just developing during Elizabethan time and they spent most of their time using drake to find a passage to China
The integration theory is probably most likely. Settlers integrated all the time, especially under circumstances where they were starving or under threat from other tribes.
its pretty obviously this one
they literally left a note of a nearby island where their best native american friend lived and johnny boy couldn't check that island. how is this a mystery lmao they were low on food and tools when john left, why would he expect them to be in the same place three years later???
The fact that this is still a mystery baffles me. They literally wrote down where they went. How more obvious could it be?
There was no decisive or hard proof left on croatoan so we don’t know for sure if they ever made it, not to mention there’s no ancient artifacts or evidence left that they arrived on croatoan, the most plausible theory I have is that they died on the way to croatoan
kr10 id agree but there was some evidence that Europeans were on the croatoan islands at the time
Let's just agree that they tried to go to the Croatoan
French Soldier yeah hopefully
@@Keith-zr2ct It is explained that the reason John White went back to England was because the colonists are running out of tools and supplies. So it makes sense to me that once they arrive, most of their tools had broken, and they instead used the local tools and wares. Thus eliminating most of the artifact traces.
Okay hear me out: The colony decided to go to the Croatoan Island for some reason, like lack of food supplies, and so they took a boat. But as you said, when John White tried to do the same, both times he had to face storms. Maybe... the colony faced a storm and just drowned, which would explain why there was no body on any of the islands and no trace of a fight either
Leila Hassani wouldn’t they have been found by now or wouldn’t the remains be found on the shore of either island also wouldn’t there be boat parts
@@irlneilcircirega9344 No because at the time there was no underwater expedition like the ones we can do now, their bodies are probably gone by now (plus the tide would've pushed them away from the shore), so even if bones are found somewhere there would be no way to tie them to the lost colony I could be wrong but that's what I think
@@leilahassani2988 that actually sounds legit
That makes a lot of sense, tbh. They probably had to flee either due to starvation or an attack by the local tribe and died at sea. It also sounds plausible that some of them got killed and the rest assimilated into the tribe, that seems to have the biggest amount of evidence.
The most solid theory I’ve heard
I have a theory: if the colony was attacked by natives, maybe they were forced to leave quickly there for they only had time to carve ‘Croatoan’ on a tree in hopes that John white would see it. Once they got to croatoan island, maybe it is possible they were wiped out by the 2 storms (especially because of how small the island was) that also caused John white to turn back twice. And there remains..in the Atlantic.
17:20 Shane is thinkin "Don't you say it!... Don't you say the 'A' word"
Lmao John went away for 3 years while they were struggling and he expected them to be in the same place with replenished food? He really said "Well... YOLO"
homeboy really left them with no resources or food for 3 years and said "stay here i'll be back" and was shocked when they didn't lmao
@@abigailc9322 frrrr
@@abigailc9322 honestly tho
They solved the mystery this year
@@charlesqueen7008 continue..
1) the man never made it to Croatoan 2) English artifacts later found there 3) colonists knew a person in the tribe, who knew White was leaving 4) children in the native tribes suddenly started having blue eyes and blonde hair The World: OMG WHERE DID THEY GO???
iDragonSpyro iuh
The english artifacts couldve easily been brought by the chief who consistently visited the uk. And, they didnt have blue eyes, they were described as grey, which is exceedingly rare in people of european descent
iDragonSpyro no every single person in the island disappeared
Yeah it's either they just left and fell into some indian tribes throughout the land or were killed by them. I'm betting atleast one is partially true.
😂😂😂😂😂
I don't know why but Shane's simple delivery of "Food" is the funniest dang thing XD
Ever since I watched this episode I have been obsessed with the mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Colony. Been looking at articles and blogs about it. It's really fascinating.
native americans: you have to get out of this land colonists: why colonists: *suddenly disappears*
Muhammad Dzikrullah AHSJSKDK
That's what I thought.
Yes we killed them whoopsie poopsie 😂😂
I guess the colonists had the last laugh?
Jim Mcclain there’s still native Americans so how
petition for a video of them burning the mannequin
Why is the head of the mannequin is moving at 17:26
I NOTICED THAT AND I WAS SO SCARED SKSKSKS
donate it to Isla de las Muñecas its no good no more :(
@@hazeltusing5410 haha, thank you for the time stamp, that is fuckin creepy
17:22 omg
"why didn't they leave a note or something with more info" just my personal theory but maybe they had nothing to write on or with since they seemed to be lacking supplies in general
no
couldnt they like,,,carve out a note on a tree
@@vivivalley I saw a documentary where they had found relevant rocks that had carvings on them that had been left behind telling clues of their relocation. You can probably Google this to hear the details
7:42 'It's an island, it's not like it's big' Australia: allow me to introduce myself
“The whole colony disappeared without a trace.” “Okay, so there was *one* trace.”
Oh poor trace, he was left alone :( Btw your 600th like
It’s ok he just forgor 💀
if they all vanished without a trace, how tf does tht archaeologist dude have evidence of cannibalism...??
Alright make that like...4...maybe 5...maybe 54 other people who claimed they were descended from them.
I've seen it documentary where they found stones thought to be left behind by one of the residents of Roanoke and then they found a map as well that showed a route thought taken by them by boat. I think it's either one of two things they relocated or the Indians got to them. Doesn't seem that mysterious. Seems the most likely other than they were beamed up by aliens
Okay here’s my theory: when he came back 3 years later he just went to the wrong island
or he drowned
mcrxliz That’s not that impossible! I mean a storm could’ve blown him off course, he could’ve forgotten which island it was and sailed to another (I think the carving was made by either natives or other settlers), etc. Honestly I believe that this could’ve happened!
@@nonbirenthenon-binarysiren6299 Natives who knew our Roman alphabet, I ll buy that /s (you gotta have the attentionspan of a fruitfly if you didn't even think of that)
Rob Schouten I have ADHD so yes I do have an incredibly short attention span
I dunno, the surely would've recongised the houses they built there.
I’m actually from North Carolina, and I have known about the Lost Colony for most of my life. Thank you for adding more details to it
This is a certified 'Natural Nuclear Reactor' moment
okay but we’ve proved that they did just go to a village called croatoan. they just didn’t actually go there for a long time. there were natives there with blue eyes and who said their ancestors “spoke as if from a book” like it legit just was them
Exactly and the people of the time refused to believe that. White people coexisting with the native population was unheard of. Just shows how close minded and backward thinking they were back then.
Right I’m not understanding the mystery here..
We don’t “know” anything
Colonizers did a hell of a lot of raping at the time- the mixing could be from that or people other than the Roanoke. Truth is we’ll never know what happened 🤷♂️
@@liamryan7239 i know nothing!
Ryan: ALIENS Shane: Dude seriously? Ryan: Z O M B I E A P O C A L Y P S E
Gianna Cutillo Zombocalypse
We had an activity based on this case for socials. She gave us several possible theories and the main evidence in this case and made us choose which one seemed the most likely
Which theory has a more weight?
Yo what school did you go to? We had the same assignment
I love how this is the only the thing I remember out of 2 history classes
“According to Andre Freeman of the Zombie Research Society,” Ah yes, the zombie research society. The most reliable source out there
Yep!! 100%% 💯 They are as reliable as the FLAT EARTH SOCIETY. ❌ 🌏 Can I get an Amen to FACTS‼️‼️ 👌😔🔥 #flatearth4life 🔉🔊 #ScienceisWRONG ✨👀
thandays mondays Poggers my good sir.
@@liaa2litt it’s clearly satire
@@sjie1874 nah man he's on to something lmao
Oh geez I didn’t realize my comment got some attention. But just to clarify: I am NOT a flat earther by any means lol. My comment was satire
why tf did they have to make the mannequin's head move
Cause it freaked people out.
Bitch I died!!!!!! Dead!!!! I cannot!!!
When does it move? I didn't notice it
엘레나 17:23
Bitch I WAS SO FUCKING SCARED
I find Myself rewatching these buzz feeds with Shane and Ryan just to have something interesting and pleasant on in the background. Helps me feel connected during these weird times And I think the unsolved mystery behind the chaos in society is aliens since ancient times So I tend to relate more to Ryan. But Shane cracks me up 💁♀️✨
Wasn't this recently solved?! I thought there was a more wholesome theory that proved to be the most likely. They moved like 50 miles lol
This video was released 3 years ago if you didn't know.
@@breenanaberry3509 yes I did know this been an avid watcher of bun for awhile. I just know they have updated a previous case before thought I could put the word out. Have a great day!
This is exactly what I commented on. I saw the documentary where they had found rocks with carvings on them left behind by supposedly one of the traveling crew of Roanoke as they were relocating. They also found part of a map that shows their boat crossing a body of water to where they relocated and now of course I can't remember exactly where they said it was or all the details LOL but I'm sure it could be googled
@@SailorLaurell love to where
So we’re just going to pretend that we don’t see the Manikin behind shane at 17:22
It friggin moved!!! Scared the hell out a me because right as I was reading your comment, I looked up and BAM there it was moving!!
Dude i said the same thing
is it supposed to do that? 😰
@rose I've watched tons of these vids and it never has
Uhhh nope
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE MOVING MANNEQUIN!?!?!?
microtest we did 1 hour ago
Literally same just posted a comment oml
What moving mannequin
check 17:20 rip i had a heart attack
My heart literally stopped!!
WILD theory: "Croatoan" was a not at all cryptic note saying exactly where they were going, and then they perished in the same stormy seas that prevented John White from getting from Roanoke to Croatoan later. But no, let's leapfrog over that to zombies and aliens. *Screams into pillow*
It did mean that was where they were going to go, white and the colony decided on a writing that word to signify they were leaving to croatoan in the event he didn't come back
12:38 Shane, I too make a map/blueprint of my room when rearranging furniture, I’ve never met another person whose done that! It saves so much time & eliminates most of the “moving stuff & not liking how it looks so now I gotta move it again” nonsense. It’s a great way to get a sense of what the new layout of the room is gonna be without all the repeated heavy lifting.
ryan: gets grabbed and dragged by a demon to the underworld shane: wow the wind sure is strong today
kendall farah 😂😂😂 IM SCREAMING! Get it, cause Shane doesn’t believe in ghosts?? HAHAHAHA SO FUNNY LMAO
kendall farah whats ur snapchat
You win
Moe Lester its: angelasupreme
you're late
It’s probably pre colonial Thanos snapping away the whole colony....
Gabriel Pascual I was looking for my marvel fans in the comments😂😂
oh , I was about to type that comment and I was like oh sht theres one nice
I- JSJSJEJEJ
Yes I agree with that.
I highly agree
Actually the cannibal guy was found to not have any drugs in his system at autopsy. The coroner suspected someone either gave him something to eat or drink that had no lingering evidence in any body samples. Meaning he was not on drugs when he ate the man's face off. My question always was in the video the victim was just laying there not putting up any sort of fight. No drugs were in his system either.
Roanoke is, always has been, and probably always will be my favorite historical mystery
native americans : leave. colonist : no lmao. native americans: hippity hoppity, you *are* going to *leave* my property. colonist : *gone*
Yes. That’s exactly how it happened! XD
\_o_/ | /\ Who can guess what happened?
K fam
What you mean to tell me the shaman said “Hippity Hoppity get the F**k off our property” and they just got a glassy look in their eye and just walked off into the trees and were likely Merced by other tribes
@@jefferycollins4844 yep, cause as history tells us, if it makes no sense, it probably happened
They disappear and write "croatoan" on a fence. John white can't get to croatoan island. Where did they go?
They joined the Croatoan tribe!
Oh, I know this one! Hatteras Island, then known as Croatoan Island, is now a permanent part of the Outer Banks peninsula due to natural geographical shifts. However, at the time, it was a tidal island. The colonists could have walked there at a certain time of year, but the adjoining land would be underwater at other times. The ocean nearby is infamously treacherous, making the journey over sea very difficult. If John White had simply waited (or had knowledge of the tides, which the local tribes did), he would have been able to reach the island on foot.
@@myettechase Thank you! I dont know if you found this on Google or actually just know your stuff but that was very informative.
Bri J Oh definitely nerdier than that, I’m running a homebrew RPG campaign set in Rodanthe, North Carolina (a few miles south of Roanoke) and went absolutely ham on my research for absolutely no reason. Did you know that Aaron Burr’s daughter Theodosia (yes, the one from the song in Hamilton) went missing at sea just off the coast nearby, and that it’s also the final resting place of Edward Teach aka Blackbeard?
@@myettechase 😯 You, my friend, are cool. Wow. No, I didn't know that
did anyone else notice the head of the figure behind them move at 17:24
Was just on Roanoke three days ago. Did some exploring on the north side. Not really a believer in the supernatural. However, there was a really off vibe about that place. Hard to explain.
“It ToOk 3 FuCkiNg YeArS ?!” - Shane
Laughing
One hundred and seventy likes for repeating what someone said. *pathetic*
@@andrelikeslemon5400 didn't know someone comment like mine lmao
AndreLikesLemon R/woosh
“NO! We’re waiting for our friend, he’s goin’ bring us blankets!!” That was the best part of the video😂
Alison Koebrick AGREED I WAS CRYING
Smallpox blankets
Alison Koebrick I agree 😂
Haha yeah i agree
My question, how do we know this guy sailed back to the right island? He could have sailed to any other island along the coast of US. He could have lied about the "Croatoan" thing to kind of cover his tracks about getting lost... tried twice and then gave up on trying to get to the other island. I mean, wouldn't you maybe try again after a while?
This one has always intrigued me, there's just something about this story that is fascinatingly scary and mysterious.
I feel like its pretty obvious where they went. Thats like me leaving a note on the fridge saying “shops” and my parents being like “oh my god where has she gone? I think she was kidnapped! How will we ever find out where she is!”
It's more like if you just wrote "shops"
@@Chipiliro613 white girl language lol
@@dedsec9734 uhh I’m not white?
not only that, its like if you wrote "Wal-mart" and they were still puzzled lol. especially if there's only one Wal-mart in existence, which was the case for Croatoan, it was the only one lol
Well it’s rather the fact it didn’t say “going croatoan” and just “croatoan” and so it’s more of what did happened. Realistically there’s only two good reasons and it’s where they attacked or did they move. Also not to mention lots of groups would leave there marks to claim their land even though the natives believed it would be nobody’s land they could have been saying leave this Alone.
Does anyone think that he literally just sailed to the wrong place.
Since he was a cartographer, I think he probably would have known his geography well enough to at least get to the right places.
He went to the fort the colony built. He tried to go to the other island that they carved on the wall. They had been to before more than once in the last 3 years. The weather was too bad. Some crew died trying to get to shore and the rest refused to help him anymore.
The man drew a perfect map out of memory I think he can get to an island
It doesn't explain the tree. Why would there be a tree in some random place that says croatoan?
Nah brah its aliens
a real life “daddy’s going to the grocery store to get some milk and never went back”
17:57 the reason they wouldn't have left a map or a note is because those would have been destroyed by the elements whereas hopefully, nothing would happen to the tree or fence they carved into. if they just tacked up a piece of paper who knows what would've happened to that, wind could have blown it, rain could have made the ink run, an animal could have eaten it, etc.
87 men 17 women Can’t imagine that went smoothly
Sorry if I'm slow, but what are you implying?
Joe that there were 5 men for every 1 woman, and leaving 70 men alone without women to fill...needs, likely caused some problems
@@genericname34 you're implying that they raped them??
Yeah it’s possible that it didn’t go great
Wait what if some of the men or women were gay 👀
i’ve always been confused about why everyone is so perplexed by this, guys they were low on food and supplies and he never actually checked the croatoan island. they definitely made peace with the croatans out of necessity and went with them. obviously.
The problem is we can never be certain if they really made it to that island, they could have died during the journey there.
@@lochnessmonster2277 but that doesn’t really matter, people are afraid to say they made peace with the croatoans which would be true whether they made the journey or not, everyone just jumps to the croatoans slaughtering them because everyone jumps to say that natives are uncivilized and to be feared
Yeah, sure, dude.
@@tedrickhernandez66 it’s the most likely scenario lol
@@elizabethmastin2307 out here speaking the truth
"IF THIS FORT WAS INDEED INTENDED TO BE HIDDEN, THEN WHY THE SECRECY?" Uh, because it was intended to be hidden.
Dean Koontz's book "Phantoms" heralds an interesting theory for mass disappearances such as what happened at Roanoke. It's a fiction/horror book, but it's especially scary and interesting because it makes SENSE.
J-J-JACK THE STRIPPERS HEAD MOVED, *the mannequins head*, AT 17:20-17:30. Ohmigawd, Shane might finally believe in paranormal activities...
Crème Vernon it was probably someone else moving it though
"jack the stripper"
Crème Vernon Remember the "exorcism" episode a few days ago? That might have been it
oof, you never know thoo
Crème Vernon Shane: It was just the wind.
I am going with Shane's story that everyone hated John White and made him leave so they could live without him.
But John's daughter was there
@@helennivelo6451 ok but, kids can hate their dads
He gave up fast looking for them
why would they give him a clue as to where they were going if they hated him?
@@Lowtiervergil347 to throw him off
imagine descendants of the roanoke colony watching this laughing
I love how Shane seems genuinely offended that Ryan proposes and actually goes through with his "Zombie Plague" Theory. [19:40] Even more than The Mass Abduction UFO one
17:23 The mannequin's face in the back started moving
PandaTV Plus omg yes .. That's Creepy
They are just fucking with people.
shut the hELL UP IM SCARED
Omg i saw it too
I almost pissed myself
Apparently, a few years after the vanishing of the Roanoke colony, fair-skinned blue-eyed natives started appearing on Croatoan Island. If true, this might mean that the remaining colonists moved to Croatoan Island and interbred with the natives.
Kate M. That’s really interesting!! Do you have a source on that so I can read more about it?
We actually had to watch a documentary on that in class I’ll ask my teacher the name and like how these ppl were protected, and I think ben Franklin or some one along those lines are related to them
It was also common for tribes to "adopt" women and children taken during battles. At times even men though they were required to go through different grueling physical trials first to earn a place whereas the other groups were not.
For some reason, I read "fat-skinned" instead of "fair-skinned"
My history teacher taught me this and this is what i believe happened
This has to be one of my favorite vids
U think these people just went: okay..We're starving, Instead of waiting let's go and move to find food. And then with this they unknowingly started a mystery that would last centuries
but actually that is probably exactly what happened, that or they were killed
yeah this is more likely than a zombie plague
They're probably like we didnt go missing and then just decided not to tell anyone😂
I love your username! Its a kim bok-joo reference right?
@@SillyBunny05 YES!
Native American children near Roanoke: *light skin, blue eyes, clearly half European* John White: OmG wHeRe cOuld ThEy haVe GONE???
Oh well. You dont try to take over a person land and not think somethings going to happen. That's what them white people get
@@kassiecook3884 what drugs are you on right now? The native Croatoans and people of Roanoke were friendly with each other, they definitely mingled and started families with each other
@Marissa Lopes if native american children near roanoke have lighter skin and blue eyes, that means they are part european, which means they mingled with the natives
A theory that was told to our history class, The Native & The Europeans helped each other, something popped off & some were forced into the wilderness to die & some stayed with the Natives
Actually, albinism was more uncommon among native americans than the british colonists which maybe why the natives were white, but then again, a theory.
we’re learning about this in class at the moment so basically i’m studying
Personally I believe they died at sea sailing to the croatoan island, this is further expressed through the fact that john white went to go sail to the island 2 times yet both times a storm foiled his plan, I think they were sailing there after putting the clue on the tree but a storm took their boat out.
They went to Croatoan Island, like the tree said, and John never made it there to check. English artifacts were later found there. 🤷♀️ I’m failing to see the mystery here.
There isn’t enough evidence to confirm that theory, therefore it is still a mystery. That’s probably what happened though.
Because they can never actually prove that those English artifacts came from those same people it technically is still a mystery.
And natives confirmed that too, and they are known for having accurate and detailed oral histories.
And people literally had white skin, blue eyes and blonde hair there according to the natives so
The "mystery" is because of racism tbh. Despite Croatoan people being born with blonde hair and blue/grey eyes and English artifacts being present there, people still think Roanoke is "unsolved" which is REALLY dumb. Its so obvious and right-in-your-face but people are still like "we'll never know"
17:24 THE MANNEQUIN IN THE BACKGROUNDS HEAD MOVES TO LOOK AT THE CAMERA AND I ALMOST SCREAMED
OMG I didn't notice that!😨😱
OfShadowsHidden WHAT THE FUCK
OfShadowsHidden nearly cried
Yes!! I am not alone to notice that !!!
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUUUUUCK
I can’t believe they Mike Wazowski’d Ryan at the end 😭😭😭
this colony has won the title for the longest hide and seek game
When i lived in NC it was actually well known that the colonists left with the Croatoan tribe. for years the tribe had children with blonde hair, light eyes, and english features.
Exactly and they BARELY explain the most watered down basic part of the story. They kinda just skidded over why it took John White so long to return to America. (I also live in NC)
I'm in NC too but my teacher always played up the ~mystery~ factor. I'm more inland tho, so I guess that could be why
Another video by Lemino covered this far better and he cites albinism isnt a rare case with Native Americans.
Irish Mud You're right. I saw a Nova on PBS that actually did DNA testing from ancestors back in England. Testing lead to people still living in NC. Descendants.