Ellie Scholl- Roanoke Colony

 The disappearance of the Roanoke colony has been a talked-about subject since the late 1600s, inviting theories and possible explanations of the event to be circulated around the supernatural. The story starts when a group of settlers under John White, moved to the island of Roanoke ( now known as Dare County North Carolina) in 1587. When John white returned to the colony after a trip to england to gather more supplies, he arrived to find no trace of the colonists. What he did find however, was a single word carved in a post saying “Croatoan”. This clue is the reason so many people believed the colony packed up and left Roanoke island to resettle on Croatoan island, but for many, not enough information adds up making this theory to iffy. Some theories suggest that the colony may have disturbed sacred indigenous lands while others imagine curses, spirits, or ghosts tied into it, all trying to take revenge on the colony for stepping foot on untouchable land. Those theories usually end in a mysterious illness sweeping though the colony or mass murder/suicide situations where one person is possesed by an angry spirit. The eerie science known to be left behind along side the dismantled but not destroyed homes adds to the mystery as if the colony simply vanished into thin air. While historians often favor the logistical explanations such as relocation, the lack of concrete evidence leaves space for supernatural speculation.