The Mysterious Disappearance of Roanoke Colony

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  • @raccoonngutz5874
    @raccoonngutz5874 Před 4 lety +9779

    John White: _leaves for supplies but doesn't come back_
    The entire colony: *Aight Imma head out*

    • @audreyann1975
      @audreyann1975 Před 4 lety +17

      "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 😐

    • @5000mahmud
      @5000mahmud Před 4 lety +296

      @@audreyann1975 ok boomer

    • @03brandongarcia
      @03brandongarcia Před 4 lety +100

      audrey ann Quiet your extra chromosomes

    • @makizaaa
      @makizaaa Před 4 lety +79

      audrey ann omg shut up

    • @striker5439
      @striker5439 Před 4 lety +82

      @@audreyann1975 boomer alert

  • @moonagedaydr3am
    @moonagedaydr3am Před 4 lety +13779

    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

  • @tavancub
    @tavancub Před 2 lety +3209

    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

    • @gummysnacksandknives9229
      @gummysnacksandknives9229 Před 2 lety +258

      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

    • @kibz2005
      @kibz2005 Před rokem +18

      Honestly, I think the locals killed and ate them

    • @olivia6515
      @olivia6515 Před rokem +109

      @@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

    • @sherlocksmuuug6692
      @sherlocksmuuug6692 Před rokem +149

      @@kibz2005 The locals in that area were never cannibals though, so that seems pretty unlikely.

    • @alexisb3829
      @alexisb3829 Před rokem +5

      Or maybe they moved inland

  • @eucalyptusfox7553
    @eucalyptusfox7553 Před rokem +1525

    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.

    • @seanydeas
      @seanydeas Před rokem +91

      Ngl y’all should dna test the Croatoan ancestors to see if their is any evidence of being related to the Dare’s

    • @elrose171
      @elrose171 Před 9 měsíci +27

      @@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

    • @daggergaming3943
      @daggergaming3943 Před 9 měsíci +16

      @@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)

    • @dragonwings1273
      @dragonwings1273 Před 8 měsíci +2

      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.

    • @MyNameIsRow01
      @MyNameIsRow01 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @dragonwings1273 were the skeletons preserved well enough to even do that?

  • @michaeladams762
    @michaeladams762 Před 4 lety +3378

    John White: brb
    Roanoke Colonists: ✔️ Read at 1587

    • @Hs-sm9iv
      @Hs-sm9iv Před 3 lety +77

      From Colonists
      Delivered 3yrs Ago
      *opens snap*
      Croatoan
      Hmm I don’t know what this means definitely not the island right beside me.

    • @BreakingWhite
      @BreakingWhite Před 3 lety +30

      damn why didn’t John White just look at snapmap it would’ve solved the whole mystery

    • @c.j.6096
      @c.j.6096 Před 3 lety +3

      I laughed at the comment pretty hard and cried from laughter by the comments of the comment.

  • @cannibalisticrequiem
    @cannibalisticrequiem Před 4 lety +5280

    Ryan: *explains what aglets are*
    Me: Sir, please, I've seen Phineas & Ferb.

  • @yourdadisizzy
    @yourdadisizzy Před 2 lety +1049

    they left a note. they literally told people where they went.

    • @thatloserkyle
      @thatloserkyle Před 2 lety +32

      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

    • @emilybarclay8831
      @emilybarclay8831 Před rokem +121

      @@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

    • @elrose171
      @elrose171 Před 9 měsíci

      @@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.

    • @featofclay2295
      @featofclay2295 Před měsícem +1

      @@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

  • @pazz
    @pazz Před 2 lety +1084

    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.

  • @kerrid5717
    @kerrid5717 Před 4 lety +33328

    If you ever feel sad about being ghosted just remember John White was ghosted by an entire town lmaooo

    • @lareynadlsr3190
      @lareynadlsr3190 Před 4 lety +176

      🤦‍♀️😄🤣

    • @zoewilson1215
      @zoewilson1215 Před 4 lety +870

      But I bet the town felt like John white ghosted them too

    • @ssfbob456
      @ssfbob456 Před 4 lety +303

      "I swear to god, if he tells me out his MLM *one* more time, I'm gonna fucking lose it!"

    • @KidEmperor11
      @KidEmperor11 Před 4 lety +77

      i understand him, I got ghosted by my crush

    • @kendallb6127
      @kendallb6127 Před 4 lety +34

      oh hey, we have the same pfp except yours is a little cooler

  • @maxine5177
    @maxine5177 Před 4 lety +4259

    John white: *leaves for 3 years*
    Colonists: *vanish*
    John white: oMg hOw diD tHiS HaPpEN

  • @ginkgomoth
    @ginkgomoth Před 2 lety +357

    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.

    • @rae6982
      @rae6982 Před rokem +4

      they were lol, it was actually solved

  • @erickantoine5584
    @erickantoine5584 Před 2 lety +676

    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.

    • @DoomAndBloom
      @DoomAndBloom Před 2 lety +85

      A lot of native American history was wiped out by colonists.

    • @gummysnacksandknives9229
      @gummysnacksandknives9229 Před 2 lety +25

      Your going to go insane sorry
      if I'm remembering right the locals said the Roanoke colony moved in with them

    • @callie5282
      @callie5282 Před 2 lety +60

      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)

    • @iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013
      @iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013 Před rokem +14

      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.

    • @aaronengland5622
      @aaronengland5622 Před rokem +19

      @@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.

  • @ToddHowar.d
    @ToddHowar.d Před 4 lety +20263

    If John White isn’t back in 15 minutes, we can leave the colony

    • @TealWolf26
      @TealWolf26 Před 4 lety +693

      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.

    • @Itsyaboijacoob
      @Itsyaboijacoob Před 4 lety +168

      It just ,,,,,,,,, works

    • @Ipsolus
      @Ipsolus Před 4 lety +79

      Patrolling Roanoke Island almost makes you wish for some native booty.

    • @dom4397
      @dom4397 Před 4 lety +36

      TealWolf26 sounds like a game Todd made

    • @dom4397
      @dom4397 Před 4 lety +18

      4x The size of Fallout 4

  • @alyjones9391
    @alyjones9391 Před 4 lety +4756

    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

    • @JJ-oe5tm
      @JJ-oe5tm Před 4 lety +254

      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

    • @alyjones9391
      @alyjones9391 Před 4 lety +74

      JJ you know what, you are absolutely correct

    • @einienj3281
      @einienj3281 Před 4 lety +3

      😄😄

    • @xXxGordO241xXx
      @xXxGordO241xXx Před 4 lety +6

      😂😂

    • @lizabethduran4417
      @lizabethduran4417 Před 4 lety +4

      @@JJ-oe5tm 😂😂🤫😁

  • @blkmtl96
    @blkmtl96 Před 2 lety +176

    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.

    • @geni412
      @geni412 Před 2 lety +9

      Is it the Lumbee tribe of Sampson County or Robeson???

    • @kellydepaz525
      @kellydepaz525 Před 2 lety +8

      Fascinating! Which tribe are you from?

  • @karak962
    @karak962 Před 2 lety +162

    the voice in which Shane said NO. OUR FRIEND IS COMING BACK AND HES GONNA BRING US BLANKETS absolutely sent me

  • @ocgmercury
    @ocgmercury Před 5 lety +6329

    Tbh, the colonists probably thought John white abandoned them, and with no supply’s, they wandered off.

    • @luisarellano1083
      @luisarellano1083 Před 5 lety +627

      Makes sense since John White was gone for 3 years.

    • @theskyisnotreal
      @theskyisnotreal Před 5 lety +223

      They said naw

    • @solei5678
      @solei5678 Před 5 lety +501

      Most likely. No supplies means time to bounce.

    • @ocgmercury
      @ocgmercury Před 5 lety +28

      Kira Sedayao that got me 🤣

    • @astrowolvez
      @astrowolvez Před 5 lety +380

      They went to the one native tribe that liked them. Archaeologists even found some artifacts where the tribe lived that only colonists would have.

  • @Connifer
    @Connifer Před 4 lety +5059

    Everyone: "*OMG ROANOKE IS SO MYSTERIOUS AND TERRIFYING*"
    croatoan natives: had "mysterious" blonde haired and blue eyed children, and english artifacts

    • @koo-core7274
      @koo-core7274 Před 4 lety +736

      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.

    • @atme365
      @atme365 Před 4 lety +237

      And maybe some of the ones who didn't, are the ones who resorted to cannibalism

    • @haley551
      @haley551 Před 4 lety +200

      @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

    • @lordofassassins11
      @lordofassassins11 Před 4 lety +37

      @@atme365 but they didn't find any bones right? That's one hitch in the whole cannibalism theory.

    • @mal428
      @mal428 Před 4 lety +72

      @@lordofassassins11 they must have slurped those bones up

  • @thiagoalves6649
    @thiagoalves6649 Před 3 lety +143

    17:22 ok that was a genius move. Now I need new pants.

    • @iliterallyloveihop4750
      @iliterallyloveihop4750 Před 2 lety +6

      LMAOA

    • @blessings1063
      @blessings1063 Před 2 lety +8

      yeah i was gonna say why no one is talking about that part

    • @foxwolf316
      @foxwolf316 Před 15 dny +2

      dud that gave my heart a huge beat i freak out when i saw it, after watching this episode no more than a couple hand full of times i never saw that until now

  • @Spaghettineck
    @Spaghettineck Před 2 lety +22

    The old days seemed crazy. Almost no communication . People would just go for a walk and never come back

  • @madisonpenney1045
    @madisonpenney1045 Před 4 lety +2933

    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.

  • @joshfine9087
    @joshfine9087 Před 3 lety +19175

    My history teacher thought this was a legit history channel video and turned it off after the 2 f bombs, it was hilarious 🤣

    • @dzeuqra723
      @dzeuqra723 Před 3 lety +2507

      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.

    • @cupcakeprime559
      @cupcakeprime559 Před 3 lety +1647

      I would show this to a bunch of teenagers

    • @aiden.ambulance
      @aiden.ambulance Před 3 lety +48

      ATSHDJFJ

    • @omnien
      @omnien Před 3 lety +84

      💀💀

    • @your_mom7597
      @your_mom7597 Před 3 lety +91

      Yo 😭 That’s great

  • @TheCrazierz
    @TheCrazierz Před 2 lety +126

    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.

  • @jenn9911
    @jenn9911 Před 2 lety +17

    21:20 why is this whole bit so amusing to me, ryan going “feed me more bullets yeahh” is just amazing

    • @johanvajse8410
      @johanvajse8410 Před 2 lety +2

      I enjoy Shane saying "He was on drugs, Ryan!"

  • @Lily-bj2pe
    @Lily-bj2pe Před 3 lety +5213

    The mannequin always freaks me out, but it's worse when you see it moving.

  • @Coyoteari
    @Coyoteari Před 4 lety +3779

    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

    • @SilverSting420
      @SilverSting420 Před 4 lety +35

      THANK YOU!

    • @maestromazmorra9597
      @maestromazmorra9597 Před 3 lety +293

      @@SilverSting420 This is just white denial. Their people integrated with the local natives to survive, so they pretended they just vanished.

    • @apolloanderson6403
      @apolloanderson6403 Před 3 lety +6

      LITWRALIY

    • @deseuryderia
      @deseuryderia Před 3 lety +83

      @@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.

    • @calypsoa205
      @calypsoa205 Před 3 lety +165

      @@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

  • @antiqueandroid
    @antiqueandroid Před 2 lety +512

    Is NO ONE going to comment about the mannequin’s head moving on its own at the 17:20 mark?!?!? 😱😱😱😱😱

  • @Eric_Nguyen.
    @Eric_Nguyen. Před rokem +17

    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

  • @deathkiller275
    @deathkiller275 Před 3 lety +14068

    I love that they know the fans hate the mannequin, so they make it move it’s head in the middle of filming

    • @j_warner2013
      @j_warner2013 Před 3 lety +813

      Literally like almost peed I was like wtf

    • @deathkiller275
      @deathkiller275 Před 3 lety +559

      @@nordichope7301 17:22

    • @FBI-ju5no
      @FBI-ju5no Před 3 lety +523

      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.

    • @its_lapis_lazuli1277
      @its_lapis_lazuli1277 Před 3 lety +95

      How r u sure it was them

    • @shakenbake3107
      @shakenbake3107 Před 3 lety +131

      That was so creepy lol

  • @sabrinaschell4938
    @sabrinaschell4938 Před 4 lety +2711

    Ryan's theories are so ridiculous, even the mannequin had to give him a judgmental look.

    • @LiveCreative-qt8jy
      @LiveCreative-qt8jy Před 4 lety +12

      😂😂Truue

    • @aestheticgcddess3054
      @aestheticgcddess3054 Před 4 lety +22

      😂😂😂 Well some of them are but I think everyone has had a time where they have a ridiculous theory

    • @allthelanguages7945
      @allthelanguages7945 Před 4 lety +130

      Did you see the manniquen head move at 17:20

    • @Raven27495
      @Raven27495 Před 4 lety +1

      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.

    • @43productions93
      @43productions93 Před 4 lety +65

      @@allthelanguages7945 I did to and it freaked me out

  • @daedalusmedia
    @daedalusmedia Před 2 lety +61

    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.

  • @wigsmey4462
    @wigsmey4462 Před 2 lety +64

    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.

  • @user-nm4gp5bw2p
    @user-nm4gp5bw2p Před 4 lety +1814

    *mannequin starts to move*
    Everyone: aight imma head out

  • @pigeonbusiness
    @pigeonbusiness Před 4 lety +4219

    The fact that this is still a mystery baffles me. They literally wrote down where they went. How more obvious could it be?

    • @Keith-zr2ct
      @Keith-zr2ct Před 4 lety +330

      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

    • @Yum69
      @Yum69 Před 4 lety +62

      kr10 id agree but there was some evidence that Europeans were on the croatoan islands at the time

    • @frenchsoldier8485
      @frenchsoldier8485 Před 4 lety +85

      Let's just agree that they tried to go to the Croatoan

    • @Yum69
      @Yum69 Před 4 lety +2

      French Soldier yeah hopefully

    • @dpraldy3235
      @dpraldy3235 Před 3 lety +112

      @@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.

  • @drewwicht7139
    @drewwicht7139 Před 2 lety +11

    17:20 Shane is thinkin "Don't you say it!... Don't you say the 'A' word"

  • @bunnynumbers9153
    @bunnynumbers9153 Před 2 lety +21

    "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

    • @ianfink2493
      @ianfink2493 Před 2 lety +1

      no

    • @vivivalley
      @vivivalley Před 2 lety +1

      couldnt they like,,,carve out a note on a tree

    • @laurenroberts1120
      @laurenroberts1120 Před 2 lety

      @@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

  • @leilahassani2988
    @leilahassani2988 Před 4 lety +4215

    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

    • @irlneilcircirega9344
      @irlneilcircirega9344 Před 4 lety +63

      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

    • @leilahassani2988
      @leilahassani2988 Před 4 lety +419

      @@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

    • @HectorHernandez-lu1do
      @HectorHernandez-lu1do Před 4 lety +131

      @@leilahassani2988 that actually sounds legit

    • @mexa_t6534
      @mexa_t6534 Před 4 lety +226

      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.

    • @rachel-3037
      @rachel-3037 Před 4 lety +45

      The most solid theory I’ve heard

  • @zefyre7481
    @zefyre7481 Před 4 lety +2779

    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???

    • @melissaji7493
      @melissaji7493 Před 4 lety +2

      iDragonSpyro iuh

    • @ninjanippledog725
      @ninjanippledog725 Před 4 lety +82

      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

    • @naopoint4096
      @naopoint4096 Před 4 lety +3

      iDragonSpyro no every single person in the island disappeared

    • @christianguerrero70
      @christianguerrero70 Před 4 lety +30

      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.

    • @SANTIAGO1979PR
      @SANTIAGO1979PR Před 4 lety +2

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @devons.3481
    @devons.3481 Před 2 lety +44

    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???

    • @luishernandezsoto
      @luishernandezsoto Před 26 dny

      They said in the video that John tried to check the island but failed due to bad weather preventing him from reaching the different island where most of his people would be at.

  • @TheRogueCommand
    @TheRogueCommand Před 2 lety +23

    I don't know why but Shane's simple delivery of "Food" is the funniest dang thing XD

  • @vqntiis
    @vqntiis Před 5 lety +4079

    What if he just sailed to the wrong island

    • @averylester8191
      @averylester8191 Před 5 lety +279

      Lps Soup that’s hilarious to think about

    • @operationtakeoveryoutube1724
      @operationtakeoveryoutube1724 Před 5 lety +189

      Omg that's actually possible 😂

    • @AMY1213141
      @AMY1213141 Před 4 lety +135

      Then it probably wouldn’t have the word on the tree

    • @JammelyMorales-Galvan
      @JammelyMorales-Galvan Před 4 lety +5

      @@averylester8191 ok 7 u thou îooooi

    • @dennis2001ish
      @dennis2001ish Před 4 lety +20

      Circumnavigation was just developing during Elizabethan time and they spent most of their time using drake to find a passage to China

  • @bri4931
    @bri4931 Před 3 lety +3201

    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"

    • @abigailc9322
      @abigailc9322 Před 3 lety +424

      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

    • @bri4931
      @bri4931 Před 3 lety +22

      @@abigailc9322 frrrr

    • @tanviohol6807
      @tanviohol6807 Před 3 lety +9

      @@abigailc9322 honestly tho

    • @charlesqueen7008
      @charlesqueen7008 Před 2 lety +8

      They solved the mystery this year

    • @bri4931
      @bri4931 Před 2 lety +2

      @@charlesqueen7008 continue..

  • @wcr2265
    @wcr2265 Před rokem +26

    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.

  • @akari8347
    @akari8347 Před 2 lety +10

    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

  • @dzdzik
    @dzdzik Před 5 lety +2382

    native americans: you have to get out of this land
    colonists: why
    colonists: *suddenly disappears*

  • @victoriabonifacio7921
    @victoriabonifacio7921 Před 6 lety +5715

    petition for a video of them burning the mannequin

    • @hazeltusing5410
      @hazeltusing5410 Před 5 lety +292

      Why is the head of the mannequin is moving at 17:26

    • @thebestspaghetti
      @thebestspaghetti Před 5 lety +140

      I NOTICED THAT AND I WAS SO SCARED SKSKSKS

    • @SavageBunnyGetMoney
      @SavageBunnyGetMoney Před 5 lety +63

      donate it to Isla de las Muñecas its no good no more :(

    • @joshanderson3961
      @joshanderson3961 Před 5 lety +36

      @@hazeltusing5410 haha, thank you for the time stamp, that is fuckin creepy

    • @piper6871
      @piper6871 Před 5 lety +36

      17:22 omg

  • @MainaGakere
    @MainaGakere Před 2 lety +13

    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.

  • @elsarankin7404
    @elsarankin7404 Před rokem +9

    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*

    • @Sogggys
      @Sogggys Před rokem +1

      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

  • @myettechase
    @myettechase Před 3 lety +6386

    “The whole colony disappeared without a trace.”
    “Okay, so there was *one* trace.”

    • @vuedanto8576
      @vuedanto8576 Před 3 lety +112

      Oh poor trace, he was left alone :(
      Btw your 600th like

    • @liamsagna9708
      @liamsagna9708 Před 2 lety +49

      It’s ok he just forgor 💀

    • @marycanary86
      @marycanary86 Před 2 lety +24

      if they all vanished without a trace, how tf does tht archaeologist dude have evidence of cannibalism...??

    • @androidmk5987
      @androidmk5987 Před 2 lety +11

      Alright make that like...4...maybe 5...maybe 54 other people who claimed they were descended from them.

    • @laurenroberts1120
      @laurenroberts1120 Před 2 lety +4

      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

  • @ripurutheman4082
    @ripurutheman4082 Před 3 lety +1333

    They disappear and write "croatoan" on a fence. John white can't get to croatoan island. Where did they go?

    • @fleaboy5555
      @fleaboy5555 Před 3 lety +60

      They joined the Croatoan tribe!

    • @myettechase
      @myettechase Před 3 lety +205

      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.

    • @bri4931
      @bri4931 Před 3 lety +20

      @@myettechase Thank you! I dont know if you found this on Google or actually just know your stuff but that was very informative.

    • @myettechase
      @myettechase Před 3 lety +65

      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?

    • @bri4931
      @bri4931 Před 3 lety +34

      @@myettechase 😯 You, my friend, are cool. Wow. No, I didn't know that

  • @MsNoPixel
    @MsNoPixel Před 8 měsíci +4

    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.

  • @johnstorch1130
    @johnstorch1130 Před 11 měsíci +4

    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

  • @avianaprayogo269
    @avianaprayogo269 Před 4 lety +812

    “It ToOk 3 FuCkiNg YeArS ?!” - Shane

    • @beefboss7890
      @beefboss7890 Před 4 lety +6

      Laughing

    • @andrelikeslemon5400
      @andrelikeslemon5400 Před 4 lety +1

      One hundred and seventy likes for repeating what someone said. *pathetic*

    • @avianaprayogo269
      @avianaprayogo269 Před 4 lety +1

      @@andrelikeslemon5400 didn't know someone comment like mine lmao

    • @oudq
      @oudq Před 4 lety

      AndreLikesLemon R/woosh

  • @_asterimos_7815
    @_asterimos_7815 Před 5 lety +1583

    Ryan: ALIENS
    Shane: Dude seriously?
    Ryan: Z O M B I E A P O C A L Y P S E

  • @bluezealot6624
    @bluezealot6624 Před měsícem +7

    Welp back to unsolved we go, guys

  • @MichaelJamesActually
    @MichaelJamesActually Před 2 lety +8

    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?

  • @ivebeeenthinkntomuchl8627
    @ivebeeenthinkntomuchl8627 Před 3 lety +2176

    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

    • @martyfredericks6440
      @martyfredericks6440 Před 3 lety +541

      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.

    • @butterflyxx9883
      @butterflyxx9883 Před 3 lety +152

      Right I’m not understanding the mystery here..

    • @liamryan7239
      @liamryan7239 Před 3 lety +9

      We don’t “know” anything

    • @rebeccatabbycat1813
      @rebeccatabbycat1813 Před 3 lety +153

      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 🤷‍♂️

    • @MegaMegajennifer
      @MegaMegajennifer Před 3 lety +2

      @@liamryan7239 i know nothing!

  • @seraphicalism
    @seraphicalism Před 4 lety +3468

    native americans : leave.
    colonist : no lmao.
    native americans: hippity hoppity, you *are* going to *leave* my property.
    colonist : *gone*

    • @mintyrose6686
      @mintyrose6686 Před 4 lety +30

      Yes. That’s exactly how it happened! XD

    • @zekedia2223
      @zekedia2223 Před 4 lety +10

      \_o_/
      |
      /\
      Who can guess what happened?

    • @duck3819
      @duck3819 Před 4 lety

      K fam

    • @jefferycollins4844
      @jefferycollins4844 Před 4 lety +18

      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

    • @duck3819
      @duck3819 Před 4 lety +13

      @@jefferycollins4844 yep, cause as history tells us, if it makes no sense, it probably happened

  • @SailorLaurell
    @SailorLaurell Před 2 lety +49

    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

    • @breenanaberry3509
      @breenanaberry3509 Před 2 lety +8

      This video was released 3 years ago if you didn't know.

    • @SailorLaurell
      @SailorLaurell Před 2 lety +4

      @@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!

    • @laurenroberts1120
      @laurenroberts1120 Před 2 lety +4

      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

    • @legionofgod6691
      @legionofgod6691 Před 2 lety +1

      @@SailorLaurell love to where

  • @aliciacamille636
    @aliciacamille636 Před rokem +7

    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.

  • @ButteredCalamari
    @ButteredCalamari Před 6 lety +2360

    why tf did they have to make the mannequin's head move

  • @trackpadthanos
    @trackpadthanos Před 4 lety +3767

    Okay here’s my theory: when he came back 3 years later he just went to the wrong island

    • @zkillerwolfz3308
      @zkillerwolfz3308 Před 4 lety +55

      or he drowned

    • @nonbirenthenon-binarysiren6299
      @nonbirenthenon-binarysiren6299 Před 4 lety +232

      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!

    • @chequeavailabilitea
      @chequeavailabilitea Před 4 lety +32

      @@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)

    • @nonbirenthenon-binarysiren6299
      @nonbirenthenon-binarysiren6299 Před 4 lety +26

      Rob Schouten I have ADHD so yes I do have an incredibly short attention span

    • @CRUSH40RULES
      @CRUSH40RULES Před 4 lety +36

      I dunno, the surely would've recongised the houses they built there.

  • @steven5526
    @steven5526 Před rokem +5

    did anyone else notice the head of the figure behind them move at 17:24

  • @Atlas226
    @Atlas226 Před rokem +4

    7:42 'It's an island, it's not like it's big'
    Australia: allow me to introduce myself

  • @caidencorso3294
    @caidencorso3294 Před 3 lety +6211

    “According to Andre Freeman of the Zombie Research Society,”
    Ah yes, the zombie research society. The most reliable source out there

    • @thandaysmondays8708
      @thandaysmondays8708 Před 3 lety +219

      Yep!! 100%% 💯 They are as reliable as the FLAT EARTH SOCIETY. ❌ 🌏 Can I get an Amen to FACTS‼️‼️ 👌😔🔥 #flatearth4life 🔉🔊 #ScienceisWRONG ✨👀

    • @jms2071
      @jms2071 Před 3 lety +23

      thandays mondays Poggers my good sir.

    • @sjie1874
      @sjie1874 Před 3 lety +51

      @@liaa2litt it’s clearly satire

    • @shiron1076
      @shiron1076 Před 3 lety +8

      @@sjie1874 nah man he's on to something lmao

    • @thandaysmondays8708
      @thandaysmondays8708 Před 2 lety +56

      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

  • @microtestgaming
    @microtestgaming Před 6 lety +10076

    WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE MOVING MANNEQUIN!?!?!?

  • @kylegates6043
    @kylegates6043 Před 10 měsíci +6

    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.

  • @Rebecca-asdf
    @Rebecca-asdf Před 2 lety +8

    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.

  • @tahahuggins4436
    @tahahuggins4436 Před 4 lety +3360

    So we’re just going to pretend that we don’t see the Manikin behind shane at 17:22

    • @lindsay644
      @lindsay644 Před 4 lety +496

      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!!

    • @jonathonbaldwin6515
      @jonathonbaldwin6515 Před 4 lety +115

      Dude i said the same thing

    • @rose8010
      @rose8010 Před 4 lety +169

      is it supposed to do that? 😰

    • @jonathonbaldwin6515
      @jonathonbaldwin6515 Před 4 lety +296

      @rose I've watched tons of these vids and it never has

    • @lydia2424
      @lydia2424 Před 4 lety +68

      Uhhh nope

  • @nianov
    @nianov Před 4 lety +962

    17:23 is the most horrifying thing I've seen in my life

  • @stephenenders2066
    @stephenenders2066 Před 2 lety +20

    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 💁‍♀️✨

  • @amalkoury9149
    @amalkoury9149 Před 6 lety +861

    ryan: gets grabbed and dragged by a demon to the underworld
    shane: wow the wind sure is strong today

    • @bruhman4268
      @bruhman4268 Před 6 lety +10

      kendall farah 😂😂😂 IM SCREAMING! Get it, cause Shane doesn’t believe in ghosts?? HAHAHAHA SO FUNNY LMAO

    • @qtjones3809
      @qtjones3809 Před 6 lety +1

      kendall farah whats ur snapchat

    • @gavinreddig3969
      @gavinreddig3969 Před 6 lety +1

      You win

    • @amalkoury9149
      @amalkoury9149 Před 6 lety +1

      Moe Lester its: angelasupreme

    • @maddie-fz7tk
      @maddie-fz7tk Před 6 lety

      you're late

  • @gabrielpascual6832
    @gabrielpascual6832 Před 5 lety +2182

    It’s probably pre colonial Thanos snapping away the whole colony....

  • @pilaradinata
    @pilaradinata Před rokem +2

    a real life “daddy’s going to the grocery store to get some milk and never went back”

  • @ace_of_cups4096
    @ace_of_cups4096 Před 2 lety +2

    Roanoke is, always has been, and probably always will be my favorite historical mystery

  • @holly8428
    @holly8428 Před 4 lety +2472

    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!”

    • @Chipiliro613
      @Chipiliro613 Před 3 lety +89

      It's more like if you just wrote "shops"

    • @dedsec9734
      @dedsec9734 Před 3 lety +11

      @@Chipiliro613 white girl language lol

    • @holly8428
      @holly8428 Před 3 lety +25

      @@dedsec9734 uhh I’m not white?

    • @professorbaxtercarelessdre1075
      @professorbaxtercarelessdre1075 Před 3 lety +91

      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

    • @thaishome
      @thaishome Před 3 lety +18

      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.

  • @genericname34
    @genericname34 Před 4 lety +1531

    87 men
    17 women
    Can’t imagine that went smoothly

    • @chad5115
      @chad5115 Před 4 lety +16

      Sorry if I'm slow, but what are you implying?

    • @genericname34
      @genericname34 Před 4 lety +154

      Joe that there were 5 men for every 1 woman, and leaving 70 men alone without women to fill...needs, likely caused some problems

    • @chad5115
      @chad5115 Před 4 lety +77

      @@genericname34 you're implying that they raped them??

    • @aestheticgcddess3054
      @aestheticgcddess3054 Před 4 lety +111

      Yeah it’s possible that it didn’t go great

    • @catherinedoan5243
      @catherinedoan5243 Před 4 lety +76

      Wait what if some of the men or women were gay 👀

  • @alifakbar4232
    @alifakbar4232 Před rokem +4

    This is a certified 'Natural Nuclear Reactor' moment

  • @frankcosyns2348
    @frankcosyns2348 Před 2 lety +3

    17:23 that mannequin in the background starts moving its head for some reason

  • @alisonkoebrick
    @alisonkoebrick Před 6 lety +699

    “NO! We’re waiting for our friend, he’s goin’ bring us blankets!!”
    That was the best part of the video😂

  • @alexandralopes1157
    @alexandralopes1157 Před 4 lety +728

    17:27 How and why the mannequin moved on its own will remain... *unsolved...*

  • @X-SPONGED
    @X-SPONGED Před 2 lety +15

    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

  • @AspireGMD
    @AspireGMD Před 2 lety +7

    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.

  • @haydenwolf4424
    @haydenwolf4424 Před 6 lety +787

    17:24 THE MANNEQUIN IN THE BACKGROUNDS HEAD MOVES TO LOOK AT THE CAMERA AND I ALMOST SCREAMED

  • @katem.3677
    @katem.3677 Před 6 lety +458

    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.

    • @junehenry8815
      @junehenry8815 Před 6 lety +18

      Kate M. That’s really interesting!! Do you have a source on that so I can read more about it?

    • @elizabethmckenzie3373
      @elizabethmckenzie3373 Před 6 lety +18

      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

    • @juliacicchino2376
      @juliacicchino2376 Před 6 lety +1

      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.

    • @JandMTalkshow
      @JandMTalkshow Před 6 lety +11

      For some reason, I read "fat-skinned" instead of "fair-skinned"

    • @etherealjoddess
      @etherealjoddess Před 6 lety +1

      My history teacher taught me this and this is what i believe happened

  • @TimeForDunston
    @TimeForDunston Před 2 lety +3

    This one has always intrigued me, there's just something about this story that is fascinatingly scary and mysterious.

  • @agerbudiman8686
    @agerbudiman8686 Před 2 lety +1

    17:20 I think the editor also noticed that the head of the model was moving, that's why the editor cropped only the Shane side

  • @elizabethmastin2307
    @elizabethmastin2307 Před 3 lety +5618

    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.

    • @lochnessmonster2277
      @lochnessmonster2277 Před 3 lety +242

      The problem is we can never be certain if they really made it to that island, they could have died during the journey there.

    • @elizabethmastin2307
      @elizabethmastin2307 Před 2 lety +714

      @@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

    • @tedrickhernandez66
      @tedrickhernandez66 Před 2 lety +9

      Yeah, sure, dude.

    • @spark1400
      @spark1400 Před 2 lety +125

      @@tedrickhernandez66 it’s the most likely scenario lol

    • @MidnightBitesCarly
      @MidnightBitesCarly Před 2 lety +68

      @@elizabethmastin2307 out here speaking the truth

  • @miriammachuca1194
    @miriammachuca1194 Před 6 lety +545

    I hope they talk about that fucking moving mannequin in the post mortem video

    • @sarahphillips9967
      @sarahphillips9967 Před 6 lety +13

      i wish i could like this 80676856764749 times

    • @joshuachamblin2828
      @joshuachamblin2828 Před 6 lety +1

      Miriam Machuca I'm sssaaayyyyiiinnnggggg

    • @larissaroc
      @larissaroc Před 6 lety +1

      Fr thO

    • @Svgarcanna
      @Svgarcanna Před 6 lety +11

      Y’all gotta calm down. People are always complaining about the fuckin mannequin so they’re just fucking with us.

    • @clanskrub665
      @clanskrub665 Před 6 lety +15

      They'll probably laugh it off and say "What Mannequin?", then the next episode the mannequin is gone.

  • @harryknackers7892
    @harryknackers7892 Před 2 lety +7

    "IF THIS FORT WAS INDEED INTENDED TO BE HIDDEN, THEN WHY THE SECRECY?"
    Uh, because it was intended to be hidden.

  • @Blue_Midnight03
    @Blue_Midnight03 Před 2 lety +7

    I can’t believe they Mike Wazowski’d Ryan at the end 😭😭😭

  • @aubriewilliams880
    @aubriewilliams880 Před 3 lety +2267

    Does anyone think that he literally just sailed to the wrong place.

    • @synalepha1569
      @synalepha1569 Před 3 lety +257

      Since he was a cartographer, I think he probably would have known his geography well enough to at least get to the right places.

    • @TabbyR22
      @TabbyR22 Před 3 lety +110

      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.

    • @gemayescasaleman8350
      @gemayescasaleman8350 Před 3 lety +113

      The man drew a perfect map out of memory I think he can get to an island

    • @kaleaevans5067
      @kaleaevans5067 Před 3 lety +40

      It doesn't explain the tree. Why would there be a tree in some random place that says croatoan?

    • @Patrick-vz6im
      @Patrick-vz6im Před 3 lety +6

      Nah brah its aliens

  • @MrSiddharthaSaha
    @MrSiddharthaSaha Před 6 lety +490

    17:23 The mannequin's face in the back started moving

  • @mapleimps
    @mapleimps Před 2 lety +2

    This has to be one of my favorite vids

  • @Nosiite
    @Nosiite Před 2 lety +6

    imagine descendants of the roanoke colony watching this laughing

  • @Theturtleowl
    @Theturtleowl Před 3 lety +3576

    I am going with Shane's story that everyone hated John White and made him leave so they could live without him.

  • @doyoulikemessi3129
    @doyoulikemessi3129 Před 5 lety +1189

    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

    • @jocelynmarie3930
      @jocelynmarie3930 Před 5 lety +46

      but actually that is probably exactly what happened, that or they were killed

    • @good2ceeu
      @good2ceeu Před 5 lety +13

      yeah this is more likely than a zombie plague

    • @JC05186
      @JC05186 Před 5 lety +13

      They're probably like we didnt go missing and then just decided not to tell anyone😂

    • @SillyBunny05
      @SillyBunny05 Před 5 lety +1

      I love your username! Its a kim bok-joo reference right?

    • @doyoulikemessi3129
      @doyoulikemessi3129 Před 5 lety +1

      @@SillyBunny05 YES!

  • @theproceedings4050
    @theproceedings4050 Před 2 lety +1

    I learned about Roanoke in grade school. That stuff is scary at that age, it kept me up for several nights.

  • @nom8661
    @nom8661 Před 3 lety +1

    I learned about this in grade school as well then again in middle school where we watched a documentary about how they thought they dismembered each member and fed on them. That was a fun history class :)

  • @haymarune3659
    @haymarune3659 Před 6 lety +1378

    J-J-JACK THE STRIPPERS HEAD MOVED, *the mannequins head*, AT 17:20-17:30. Ohmigawd, Shane might finally believe in paranormal activities...

    • @henyo5409
      @henyo5409 Před 6 lety +76

      Crème Vernon it was probably someone else moving it though

    • @monkeys1597
      @monkeys1597 Před 6 lety +173

      "jack the stripper"

    • @jose-ji6yj
      @jose-ji6yj Před 6 lety +37

      Crème Vernon Remember the "exorcism" episode a few days ago? That might have been it

    • @haymarune3659
      @haymarune3659 Před 6 lety +7

      oof, you never know thoo

    • @Rngd805.
      @Rngd805. Před 6 lety +106

      Crème Vernon
      Shane: It was just the wind.