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We're hoping what happened to Roanoke doesn't happen to this video.
Transcript
- 00:07
Roanoke.
- 00:10
Hey, guys. I'll be honest -- I'm freakin'.
- 00:13
I've lost my keys on occasion before, but this is ridiculous...
- 00:16
...now I've misplaced an entire town. [man in library]
- 00:18
Okay, okay... I just need to go back to the beginning...
Full Transcript
- 00:24
My buddy Sir Walter Raleigh was tight with Queen Elizabeth the first...[Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter in throne room]
- 00:28
...and she granted him permission to establish a colony in the New World.
- 00:33
This colony, called Roanoke, started with
- 00:35
roughly 100 settlers, and what they thought was a sufficient amount of supplies. [painting of settlers]
- 00:39
They thought wrong.
- 00:41
These colonists were forced to tuck their tails between their breeches and head home to England. [ship sailing back to England]
- 00:45
Take two -- and this is where I come in. Raleigh wasn't willing to admit defeat just
- 00:49
yet, so he sent me to give it another go.
- 00:53
I took a new batch of settlers, and we returned
- 00:56
to Roanoke to meet up with the few people we'd left behind to hold down the fort, [Ship sailing back to America]
- 01:00
only... The fort was unattended. [deserted fort with tumble weeds]
- 01:04
Needless to say, we were a little wigged out about it.
- 01:08
A tribe of Indians called the Croatoans were not our biggest fans, and vice versa. [angry indians]
- 01:15
We were a little scared for our lives, to be frank, so I skedaddled.
- 01:19
Not to run away, of course, but to sail back to England so I could scrounge up some people
- 01:23
who would help us defend ourselves. We were having a little tiff with Spain that
- 01:28
put a halt to seafaring voyages for a while...
- 01:30
...so I wasn't able to get back to America for three years.
- 01:34
I just got back, and... nothin'. Nobody.
- 01:37
Just a tree with the word "Croatoan" carved into the bark. [empty countryside with lone tree]
- 01:41
I know what you're thinking -- obviously,
- 01:42
the Croatoans killed all my buddies, and maybe you're right...
- 01:45
...only there are no signs of a struggle, nor any signs of a hasty retreat.
- 01:49
And no dead bodies, which is great, because I'm a tad squeamish.
- 01:55
So what in the New World happened to everybody?
- 01:58
Did they move south to the island of Croatoan?
- 02:01
Did they abandon their roots and join up with the tribe? [tribal village]
- 02:07
I really have no answers here, and it's starting to get dark...
- 02:10
...is anybody else as creeped out by this as I am?
- 02:13
No? It's just me. Okay. Cool.
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