Roanoke Island: The Mystery of America's Lost Colony 

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Love your content eric! Happy Easter ✝️✝️✝️🙏🙏🙏🙏✝️

This was Eric's best video! More like this please! Keep it coming. You are entertaining

Thanks for a great story. I’m also happy my mom’s family waited for the Mayflower. 😊

I love the people shocked Simon didn't do the video. Its been months since he has done one here. If you're shocked, you weren't exactly watching a lot.

The channel delivers as always. Well done Eric, and for the dev team as well as the production team. Quality content delivered by a quality crew. Thank you!

I lived in the NC outer banks for a while. I can't fathom what would give the English the idea that it was a suitable place for a colony. The barrier islands are essentially just wind blasted sand bars sticking above the water. Very little fresh water. Surrounded by deep water on more or less all sides. Constant danger of storms. Alligators were likely everywhere. Miserable summers and miserable winters. Especially considering this was during the little ice age which lasted from 1400-1800, time would have been tough. So they chose a sand bar. Genius. The mainland would have been a much better choice.

Great presentation and story. Thanks. Correct angle.

Good work as ever :D

This was actually better and more entertaining than I had expected having heard this story many times before and only clicking on the video out of sheer boredom. 👍😅

*insert Roanoke gaming reference here*

1:40 - Mid roll ads 3:35 - Chapter 1 - The island 5:05 - Chapter 2 - Early trips 8:35 - Chapter 3 - 2nd trip 12:25 - Chapter 4 - Lost colony 17:45 - Chapter 5 - What happened at roanoke 20:50 - Chapter 6 - Later life on roanoke 22:40 - Conclusion

Thanks Radu

VIDEO EDITOR: You might want to have a chat with your host. Looks like the camera is focused on the microphone setup because that's crystal clear. LOL. Yeah. He needs to move the microphone out of shot so the camera can focus on him and not the object that's closest to it (the microphone). It was the issue even in the ad for the sponsor. He looks hazy. It's headache inducing and makes people's eyes ache too (mine anyway). Thanks!

I’m sorry for your loss Eric.

Wrote about the camera fps/not being smooth issue on earlier video. Its still there. Also the camera looks a bit blurry (low res)

Horror writers love the Roanoke story. It gives us so much fodder for our stories. Just look at the sixth season of American Horror Story.

Wait what? Wheres Simon? Alright I'll give you a chance new guy

Who’s this new new guy?

is this a long ad since it's Eric. 😂

Roanoke island always had a haunty feel to me - and I don’t even believe in that shit!

Thanks Ravu! Super fun storie.

Roanoke Colony is mention in the 2010 film Vanishing on 7th Street.

Unlock fact boy from the basement. I guess the writers broke free and took over.

Surely there is a record of the colony when they arrived,and what they did.They cannot disappear just like that,no way.

Gotta say, you have a badass sounding last name. 😊

Did anyone else see the coolest thing in this video besides me in the background?? Ssj goku!

I do wonder what happened to the colonists.

I miss Simon.

Who’s this handsome hairy man? Also where’s Karl?

Croatoa!

Broatoan

I thought this was one of Simon's channels?

Most probably these lost colonists were taken off by the mosquitoes... I've been there many times and some relatives have a home in Wanchese (Roanoke Island) and I can testify that the mosquitoes in that area are voracious...they fight over which one gets to take the hapless victim back into the swamp.

Without any of the native Croatoan there's no way to test for any traces of English DNA. If they went to live with them they for sure integrated into the tribe.

Wait? You're the host? Is Carl gone forever?

Why don’t they do some DNA testing of natives that can trace their heritage back to the Roanoke area and see if there is some European DNA mixed in.

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I hope he covers something new about this topic rather then the same info as the last 15 people to cover it.

Must have been s* in the old days

What happened to Simon?

Still sticking to the alien abduction theory. There's no proof for it but there's no proof against it either, 😂.

It was aliens. Definitely aliens.

Who tf is this guy

Where’s Simon!!!???

'Because there wasn't a pronunciation guide' As if that's EVER stopped dude from butchering any pronunciation.

I don’t understand why Simon isn’t here, is he just too busy?

"America's Lost Colony"! Don't you mean "England's Lost Colony"? After all, the USA (aka "America") didn't exist when the colony was founded in 1585 (not 1587). And didn't for another 190 years. It was founded by the first Queen Elizabeth's England, not America. 😉

OK who is this guy and why is the audio so freaking bad? Bass boost much. Ugh sounds awful. Please use a low frequency filter.

Not sure I feel enlightened on the topic after watching. We seem to see a lot of this bloke's talking head, with a few photos inserted on repeat. The last half needed expanding. The actual theories are brushed over, with each given about as much time as the alien theory. Could have better described those missing,, women, men, children? DNA evidence? Do any Indigenous people still live in the area? But basically the English massacred the Indigenous people? How many? That deserves much more time. The narrator seems more concerned about garnering comments for his scriptwriter mate than about telling a full and interesting story. I'm not pining for Simon - he's on too many channels and has become the ultimate script reader, inserting his oh-so-witty smart-arse comments, while clearly not being engaged in the content of the actual script he's reading. In journalism and PR, it's a career-ending fail if you become the story. However that seems to be the style of so many channels - it's all about the host. I'd much rather get lost in a well-told, well-researched story where the narrator is not the dominant factor.

The Geo/Bio Graphics are officially losing my subscription. I subscribed for Fact Boy, not these other presenters. Just sad to see 2 of my favorite Whistler channels be left behind by the man himself. Maybe one day Simon will return. But until that day I am done. The videos just don't have the same life Simon brings to the table while discussing facts.

Simon fell off...

Unsubed. Mr whistler is just better

They litterally wrote where they went on a tree and the rescue team didn't follow it 😂 and it turns out there's a lot of evidence that they went where they pointed 🙄

What the hell happened to Simon? Not interested in this guy.

Another redux of a Simon Script.

You don't live and breathe facts....at least Simon doesn't. When it comes to politics and world events/views....all these 'graphics' channels are incredibly heavily biased to whatever the WEF view is. So don't lie. Just say nothing and you won't be called a liar, when it comes to 'living and breathing facts'.