Roanoke: Ummmm, Hello?

In the era of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh and John White sailed across the Atlantic, started a colony with over 100 people on an island they called Roanoke, and then lost them. In this episode, Emily and Maddy talk about the age-old mystery: what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke?

 

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