In an effort to be more transparent about the sources we gather information from, we’ll be sharing them for each episode on this site!
Episode 15 was a deep dive into the the possible explanations for the disappearance of the Roanoke colony featuring Sara Head and Karen Stollznow of the Archaeological Fantasies and Monster Talk podcasts, respectively. You can listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music.
For this episode, we used the following sources:
Book: The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler
Podcasts: Astonishing Legends Episodes 151 & 152: The Lost Colony of Roanoke Parts 1 & 2; Unexplained Mysteries Episodes 5/5/20 & 5/7/20: The Roanoke Colony Pts. 1 & 2
Websites:
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/04/980428075409.htm
- https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/picture-climate-how-can-we-learn-tree-rings
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/starving-settlers-in-jamestown-colony-resorted-to-cannibalism-46000815/
- https://www.buzzfeed.com/christopherhudspeth/5-theories-about-what-actually-happened-to-the-lost-colony
- https://ubique.americangeo.org/map-of-the-week/map-of-the-week-the-lost-colony-of-roanoke/
- https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/roanoke_colonies_the
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mystery-roanoke-endures-yet-another-cruel-twist-180962837/
- https://www.andrewlawler.com/it-was-americas-first-english-colony-then-it-was-gone/