Native Americans until a tribal elder banished them with the word "Croatoan". This premise is expanded upon in the sixth season of the series, American Horror Story: Roanoke, which presents a series of fictional television programs documenting encounters with the ghost colonists. The leader of the undead colonists, "The Butcher", is depicted as John White's wife Thomasin, although there is no historical evidence that she was one of the colonists. In the 2015 novel The Last American Vampire, the colonists are the victims of a vampire named "Crowley"; the inscription "CRO" was thus an incomplete attempt to implicate him. See also List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910 Timeline of the colonization of North America Notes References External links Fort Raleigh National Historic Site The Lost Colony (1921 silent film) The First Colony of Virginia, documents originally from Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Nauigations (1598–1600) Historical/Archaeological organizations First Colony Foundation Croatoan Archaeological Society Roanoke Island Historical Association Colonial North Carolina Colonization history of the United States Colonial United States (British) English colonization of the Americas Former English colonies Dare County, North Carolina Elizabeth I History of the Thirteen Colonies 1580s in North America Mass disappearances 1580s in the British Empire Pre-statehood history of North Carolina Ghost towns in North Carolina Lost cities and towns Missing people Unexplained disappearances States and territories established in 1585 States and territories disestablished in the 1590s 1585 establishments in North America 1590s disestablishments in North America 1585 establishments in the British Empire 1590s disestablishments in England 16th century in North America 1590s missing person cases