One version told of the eventual infection and destruction of the entire colony. However, that night, they rose up and attacked the other colonists. The men, after a period of medical examination, all died within hours of each other, with burial set the following dawn. They said that they were attacked by both the "savages" described by the executed survivor and the members of the original group. The disbelieving colony magistrate thought that he killed the other colonists and lied about it, ordering him to be hanged the next day.Īfterward, another expedition of five men was sent to the mainland to try to find and recover the bodies of the first group, “lest their remains are desecrated by heathens.” They came back in a state of near collapse, with scratch and bite wounds all over their bodies.
The survivor stated that his comrades were eaten alive by the risen colonists and that he was the only one to escape. their putrid, worm-ridden skin impervious to powder and shot!." Although only one member of the party was killed, four others were badly wounded, succumbing the following day and were buried in shallow graves, only to rise up in just a matter of hours to attack their former friends. He told of an attack by “a band of savages. Three weeks later, a lone survivor of the eleven member group appeared at the colony. One day, one of those parties failed to return. The English settlers of Roanoke cut off from England, regularly sent hunting parties to the mainland to find food. Word for Word transcriptions are prohibited. You can help Zombiepedia by summarizing the Zombie Survival Guide's information on this outbreak here.
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