The Word Carved in Wood: What Really Happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?

In August 1590, an English governor named John White waded ashore on a small island off the coast of what is now North Carolina, calling out for the 115 men, women, and children he had left behind three years earlier — including his own infant granddaughter. No one answered. The colony was gone. Not destroyed. Not burned. Simply... gone.