Post by MCDemuth on Sept 3, 2017 21:01:37 GMT
2. They starved to death
3. They died of some sort of plaque\Disease
As I recall, all of the existing buildings were "gone" (as in "dismantled?") three years later.
If they all had "died", there should have still been buildings to find. I think bodies or bones should have been found too.
5. They went back to England and forgot to tell people.
As already noted, this seems highly unlikely...
But even if they did this, Why was "Croatoan" carved into two trees? Shouldn't the words have been "England"?
Well, I supposed this technically possible... there are some claims of other early cultures vanishing without a trace. But, their structures remained behind... Unless... Did the E.T. wants log cabins too?
I doubt this possibility.
1. They were massacred by the indians
4. They relocated to another place.
I have questions concerning either theory...
4.) If they went to some other place, like: Croatoan Island, why was there never any indication of anyone going there or settling there during that time period? There is no record of them being anywhere else, except for Roanoke.
1.) Did the Indians bury all the bodies, and then dismantle all of the homes and take the wood with them? But then, why did they leave a wooden stockade, that surrounded the colony, perfectly intact?
However, there is a theory that somewhat combines both possibility, into one...
The Dare Stones:
The Dare Stones are a series of inscribed messages supposedly written by English colonists, members of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island off North Carolina.
The stones purport to give accounts of what happened to the colonists. They are mainly supposed to have been written by Eleanor White Dare, who was the daughter of John White and the mother of Virginia Dare, the first child of English descent to be born in North America.
The First Stone
L.E Hammond, a Californian tourist, claimed in 1937 to have found a stone inscribed by Eleanor Dare. He took it to Emory University, Atlanta, where it was examined by Dr Haywood Jefferson Pearce, Jr., professor of American history. It stated on one side that Eleanor's husband and daughter were dead, and asked the finder to communicate this to her father:
Ananias Dare &
Virginia Went Hence
Unto Heaven 1591
Anye Englishman Shew
John White Govr Via
On the other side it explained that all but seven of the colonists had been killed by savages, and was signed 'EWD'.
Pearce did not immediately declare the stone to be authentic, but argued that the content was not incompatible with the known historical facts, that the spelling conformed to expectations of Elizabethan orthography, and that the necessary tools for such an inscription were likely to have been in the possession of the colonists.
In 2015, a History Channel movie reported that the stones were examined by a team of archaeologists including Fred Willard, as well as Kevin Quarmby, a scholar of early modern (Shakespearean era) literature and writing from Oxford College of Emory University. The movie reported that the first stone was authentic and distinct from the other stones...
The stones today
Today, Brenau University retains the Dare Stones, but displays only a few of them in the special collections section of the library. However, the university makes the entire collection available for legitimate research or reasonable media inquiry, and has cooperated on a number of television programs and research projects, including a 1977 documentary narrated by Leonard Nimoy. (In Search Of...)
The stones have few supporters of their authenticity today, though Robert W. White's 1991 book A Witness for Eleanor Dare argued that they were genuine, and others have suggested that the first stone may be real.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dare_Stones
The episode of In Search Of... suggested that the surviving seven, lived and had children with the local native population. Apparently there are (blonde?) & blue eyed descendants of that local native population.