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So you're very aware as a citizen of North Carolina, somebody who grew up here, of this lost colony and the fact that hurricanes affected their resupplies and all that stuff. And yet literally two months ago, houses are falling into the sea because people built too close to the water because of hurricanes. They just always think that they can... beat the nature. They can fix it, they expect it, and they just plan to fix. It's so beautiful, it's worth it. There's probably 400-year-old descendants of Native Americans living inland going, I can told you so. What are you doing? What are you actually doing? That's why you build houses on stilts. Well, the houses on stilts are falling into the sea. Yeah, I know. If you don't know what I'm talking about, because I watch Weather Channel videos nightly, go look up houses on the Outer Banks falling into the sea, literally this summer, like three more fell in. Well, there was one a couple of years ago, remember, there was that one that was half washed away when we were staying at the Outer Banks. We were walking along the beach, and it was in a place where it shouldn't have been. It was clearly a very old house that was built way too close to the ocean. It was just like slowly washing into the sea. There's literally million dollar houses that fell over this summer. Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy. OK, well, back to the story. Anyway, when he got back, he looked for the colony, found no trace of the people. He went to the colony, found no trace of the people, no burials, no warfare signs, no anything. It was just like everybody picked up and left. Yeah. And the only thing he found carved into one of the posts near the entrance of the colony was the word croatone. Yeah. Indicating, because he did say, if you're going to go, tell me where you went. Yeah. So he just assumed they went to croatone. Well, they had a plan to meet Inland up at this new location, if they had to leave. But Croatoan indicates they went somewhere different, because Croatoan is an island in the Outer Banks. So it was confusing, I think, to him to get that message, which was directly opposite of what they had agreed before he left. But he was gone for three years. So like, you know, they got to do what they got to do.