was the word CROATOAN That word along with the letters CRO was carved into nearby trees and posts A nearby island was called Croatoan Some historians think the colonizers moved there They may have joined an Indigenous tribe that already called it home Items that only the colonizers could have brought have been found there That is the only proof The mystery remains unsolved CITY OF ROANOKE 116 Number of people who originally landed on the island Some historians think the colonizers tried to sail back to England too Other historians believe they were killed by a nearby Indigenous tribe They might have died from disease But that doesn't explain the strange carvings VIRGINIA 6
7 A BIG DELAY White arrived in England in November 1587 Shortly after a naval war began between England and Spain All available ships were needed for the battles Had White been able to return on time things may have gone much differently Roanoke is also called The Lost Colony Blue Ridge Parkway is a scenic drive near current day Roanoke Virginia
45 2 WWII Pilots Witness Strange Lights in the Sky During World War 2 1939 the skies over Europe were a battleground Fighter planes shot bullets at each other Large bombers carried weapons of mass destruction Weapons weren't the only things lighting up the sky though In the fall of 1944 US pilots noticed strange orange lights There were eight of them all in a row The pilots radioed soldiers on the ground They wanted to know if anything was showing on their radar The ground radar showed no sign of the strange lights Then the lights blinked out At first the men were reluctant to share their experiences They worried that nobody would believe them But in December the lights returned Others saw them too The pilots were baffled The orbs moved faster and with more skill than any aircraft of the time 8
9 THINK ABOUT IT If you saw something mysterious would you say something Do you think people would believe you How would you convince them Art shows two mysterious lights next to World War 2 aircraft
