“New World, New Me!” said Sir Walter Raleigh when he stepped off the boat to Roanoke Island in 1587 with 120 English settlers. His aim? To start the first permanent English settlement in North America. But things didn’t exactly go according to plan.

Since the Roanoke Colony was poorly supplied, their governor, John White, had to travel back to England to restock. But the onset of the Anglo-Spanish war caused serious delays. When White returned three years later, the settlement was abandoned and the colonists were gone. So, what happened? Did they die of disease, were they massacred by natives or did the Roanoke colonists split up into groups, each of which assimilated itself into a different Native American community? The latter is more likely, but the truth of the Lost Colony remains a mystery.