Top Historian UNLOADS on the Lost Colony of Roanoke Story | Andy Powell

Julian Dorey Daily • September 19, 2025

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🏝️ What really happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?


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In this gripping clip, historian Andy Powell breaks down America’s oldest unsolved mystery: the disappearance of the Roanoke colonists in the late 1500s. Were they wiped out by disease? Did they merge with local tribes? Or was there something even darker behind the colony’s vanishing act?


This story has haunted historians for centuries — but Andy Powell sheds light on the facts, the myths, and the unanswered questions that still surround Roanoke.


🔎 Inside this episode:


Why the Roanoke colony vanished without a trace


Theories historians debate to this day


What evidence points to assimilation with Native tribes


Why Roanoke remains America’s greatest colonial mystery


How the story of Roanoke shaped America’s early history


This isn’t just history. It’s the mystery that still refuses to be solved.


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