12 Unsolved Mysteries

12 Unsolved Mysteries book cover — Table of Contents Whole Colony of Settlers Disappears Glowing UFOs Surround WWII Aircraft Ghost Ship Adrift in the Arctic 8 Two Sisters Return From the Dead 10 Lost in the Bermuda Triangle 12 Famed Aviator Amelia Earhart Vanishes 14 Blobs of Goop Drop From the sky 16 Man Leaps From Plane and Disappears 18 Three Men Escape From Alcatraz 20 Ship Found Sailing Without Crew Members 22 The Curse of the Evil Crater 24 Lost Treasure Hidden on Oak Island 26 Fact Sheet 28 Glossary 30 For More Information 31 Index 32 About the

12 Unsolved Mysteries — page 1 — Whole Colony of Settlers Disappears In the spring of 1587 a ship containing a group of English men His granddaughter Virginia Dare was the first English child born in women and children set sail across America But times grew hard for the Atlantic Ocean The ship was the settlement White sailed back to under the command of James White England for supplies and food It was bound for Chesapeake Bay With hurricane season approaching the ship instead made land on a A naval war between England and Spain delayed White's return to the colony Three years passed before small island off the coast of what is he could return When he arrived now North Carolina The island was at Roanoke in August 1590 he named Roanoke found the settlement abandoned The colony was the first There was no trace of the English settlement colonists Only one possible clue to their in the New World The Roanoke White became the fate was discovered settlement s governor A word carved into a colonists gather together for Virginia Dare s baptism AT

12 Unsolved Mysteries — page 2 — 116 I rea CROATOAnd Approximate number of English settlers to arrive at Roanoke Island The only clue left behind from James White was the settlement s governor White traveled bac England for additional supplies and spent three years there before returning to America One mysterious clue to the missing colonists remained the word CROATOAN Remains have been found suggesting the colonists may have joined an American Indian tribe the settlers was a single word their own attempt to sail back to England Recently archeological teams may have found remains that suggest the colonists survived and joined American Indian tribes Metal bars wooden post CROATOAN But what did it mean And where were the settlers and blocks believed to be European were found at a Croatoan forest Numerous theories about the fate of the Roanoke settlers have been site Pottery and tools were found at a site 50 miles 80 km from the suggested over the years Croatoan settlement was the name of an island south of Roanoke It was also the name of the American Indian tribe who lived there Some believe that this tribe These findings offer clues to the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony However the truth may never be known making the lost settlers attacked the settlement Another of Roanoke one of America's theory suggests that the struggling colonists abandoned their camp in oldest unsolved mysteries O

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