What Really Happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?

Imagine you're playing hide and seek with your friends, but when the game ends, none of them come out. That’s like what happened to the Roanoke Colony, a group of people who left England to start a new life in America, but they just disappeared. The only clue they left behind was a message carved into a tree that said 'Croatoan.' No one knows exactly what happened to them, and it's still a mystery today.

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  1. Imagine you leave your friend at a park to play hide and seek. When you come back, they’re gone, but there's only one word carved in a tree: 'Croatoan.' You have no idea where they went.
  2. Like when you go on vacation and forget to tell your mom you'll be home later, she might worry that something happened to you too.
  3. It’s like having a whole class of students vanish from school, but all the teacher found was a note saying 'Croatoan.'

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