Episode 12: Ghosts of the Lost Colony & The Graveyard of The Atlantic Hauntings in NC

Megan and Brooks discuss the Lost Colony of Roanoke and paranormal experiences in and around Roanoke Island. Could they be connected? We also discuss the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the coast of NC and paranormal experiences in the OBX (outer banks) of NC.

The Lost Colony of North Carolina’s Ghosts and Ghost Stories

If you don’t know the history of the Lost Colony, here it is in a nutshell. In 1587, the first colony in America was in Roanoke in what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina. 117 English men, women, and children came ashore to establish a permanent English settlement. Three years later when English ships returned in 1590 to bring supplies, the island was deserted with no sign of the colonists except the word “Croatoan” etched into a tree. The mystery of what happened to the colonists still hasn’t been solved to this day.

Now, people live on the island and there are lots of paranormal reports and encounters that have been documented. In one encounter we discuss, two teens heard a loud cat-like screeching and then saw a dark blob come down from the hills and over a pier until it just disappeared. This black blob has been seen by others in the area dating back hundreds of years. Could this blob have been responsible for the disappearance of the colonists? Is there something sinister on the island that tries to get people to leave?

The Graveyard of the Atlantic Hauntings

We also discuss another important part of North Carolina history, the graveyard of the Atlantic. If you look at the shoreline of NC, you can see it’s not a straight line and actually has lots of inlets and small islands of thin land around it.

Due to this jagged shoreline, many ships have gone down off the coast of North Carolina earning the name The Graveyard of the Atlantic. It’s estimated that just off NC’s coast there are at least 5,000 sunken ships in the area.

We discuss eerie experiences others have had close to the outer banks of North Carolina including seeing these ghost ships. Someone even had an experience with Blackbeard the pirate who was also killed off the coast of North Carolina on the inner side of Ocracoke Island.

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