Croatoan


First time I heard of this "CROATOAN" thing was in season 2 of Supernatural. According to the episode, croatoan was something like a demonic plague and people were turning other people into that creature by giving them to drink some of their demonic blood or something. Once you're infected, you don't exist anymore, you're not human. That's why the whole city disappeared.
But in this movie it was different. I can say that I wasn't able to understand what happened, when did it start happening, or how... It didn't make any sense to me.

I fell apart, but got back up again...

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The word "croatoan" on both the movie and Supernatural, as well as in any place it shows up, is a reference to a real event... Give a look at this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Colony


Now, I don't want to be mean or rude, but remember: google is your friend!

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I'm sorry about my bad English. It isn't my first or even 5th language. Any corrections are welcome

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Right...I know what croatoan is, I've read about it, I know what it means and what it stands for. What I'm saying is that it's different in SPN than in the movie. That's all.

I fell apart, but got back up again...

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Its an old legend.
Dean Koontz used it i Phantoms back in 90's. (thats when I first herad of it)

There is a movie based on the book with Ben Affleck, but id recomend the book instead.

X ~We are the people our parents warned us about

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The colony on Roanoke Island was established by Sir Walter Raleigh (although he never visited it himself). I used to get a magazine in the 1980's called The Unexplained. The explanation that they came out with was that the Roanoke islanders had been told to leave a message if they had to abandon the colony. The Croatoan message was taken to mean that they had thrown their lot in with a local native American tribe called the Croatoans. However they had been wiped out by a hostile native American tribe and presumeably the colonists as well. Which is why they were never found. Plausible explanation, but I am not sure that it answers all of the questions.

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This. Also there were people in the area with surnames matching the colonists.

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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms!

"You're going to need a bigger boat." - Chief Brody

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There was an island referred to as The Croatoans, but they were never investigated after the disappearance either because of lack of financial interest and means or bad weather.

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As above posters have mentioned, Croatoan was the name of the island that the lost Roanoke colony likely relocated to. And of the Native tribe that lived there. Croatoan Island is now called Hatteras Island, near Roanoke Island.

They had been waiting for supplies to be shipped in from England, but a war kept supply ships from being sent for three years. They needed either English imports, or Native tribes, to provide enough food staples to survive.

Settlers often integrated with friendly tribes when cut-off from England. The Roanoke settlers were already friendly with the Croatan tribe, from the nearby Croatoan Island, because they had established a colony there first. The Roanoke settlers had lived on Croatoan Island for two years before moving on to establish a new colony on Roanoke Island.

So it's probable they returned to their original stable colony. They carved its name on a post, without carving the symbol for danger, indicting they voluntarily left in safety. They took their belongings and neatly dismantled their housing frames. The English party that later discovered the post carving assumed they were safely living back in the Croatoan Island colony.

Folks in England couldn't have been too worried, because no one checked on their whereabouts for over 30 years. By that time, there were young mixed Caucasian/Croatan tribal members with surnames of lost colony members. Reporting that the lost colonists came and lived on Croatoan Island for 20 years before being massacred by a neighboring tribe, who spared only their mixed children.

I had to learn this for tribal studies. My mom is Lumbee, so they teach us its history. It's a tribe from NC, and a descendant of the Croatan tribe. I was shocked as Hell to see it in this movie. But pleasantly.

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This is a great explanation. Thank you.

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I'm surprised to learn that the "lost colony" story is a true story. Nice, how the writer of this movie was able to connect his movie to this historical mystery.

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I'm stunned by how many people in this board apparently didn't pay attention in history class.

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Why should some little event, happening on the edge of the world, be taught in the history class?

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Good point, in that my argument only stands for Americans who grow up learning American history, and I blindly assumed the OP was American. Still, it's such an intriguing historical mystery that a lot of people hear about it for that reason!

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