Phantom Report: What youve never heard of!
Let me take you back to the late 16th century. Colonization of the New World is in full swing, with the British efforts being led by Sir Walter Raleigh, who had been appointed by Queen Elizabeth I specifically for this job. A lot of the mainland was settled by Native Americans (but not for long, don’t you worry – the rest of the settlers would make that problem go away soon enough), so Raleigh decided to settle on the island of Roanoke, just off the coast of modern day North Carolina. The colony proved to b
Except that’s not what fate had in store for her. Shortly after the girl’s birth, her grandfather John White, appointed by Sir Raleigh as the governor of Virginia, left with a small crew back to England in order to gain more supplies for Roanoke. His journey ended up taking three years (which really makes those seven-hour long oceanic flights feel like a breeze), and in 1590, White finally returned to the colony… Only to find it completely deserted. Not a single person was there. Nothing of value was left.
So the obvious question is what happened to Virginia Dare, her family and her fellow colonists? Why did they leave their home, and if they did, where did they go? Now, as you should know by now, I’m a man of reason and I don’t like to entertain impossibilities, so for the time being, let’s eliminate aliens, demons, Native American graveyards and anything else in this realm, okay? There are several theories that are a bit more grounded in nature, based on the evidence at hand. The likeliest explanation is th
Phantom Report: What youve never heard of!