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Podcast: Astonishing Legends
Episode: The Lost Colony of Roanoke Part 2
Description: Valid hypotheses about the Lost Colony of 1587 on Roanoke Island have existed since the settlers' disappearance.  In 1603, Bartholomew Gilbert attempted the last contemporary expedition to locate the colonists, but his search ended with the death of himself and four crewmen at the hands of Algonquian natives. John Smith, an influential leader of the Jamestown Colony of 1607, had heard stories from Native American chiefs about villages where some of the men wore European-style clothing. His search efforts would come up empty-handed, except for producing a map showing the locations of the suspected communities with walled housing. It wasn't until 1701 with John Laws...