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This Drone Could Find the Lost Colony of Roanoke

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America’s oldest mystery—what happened to the first English colonists who disappeared with hardly a trace—is yielding tantalizing new clues to high-tech sleuths.

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As viewers tune in for the pig-wallow witchcraft of American Horror Story: Roanoke, the real Roanoke Island remains a favored haunt of scientists, not spooks.

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