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Preview | Jamestown’s Dark Winter

Uncoverr the truth about the first permanent English colony in the New World

Aired 11/24/2015 | Rating NR

Secrets of the Dead

Preview | Jamestown’s Dark Winter

Preview: Season 14 Episode 4 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions

Uncoverr the truth about the first permanent English colony in the New World

Jamestown, Virginia. The site of the first permanent English colony the Americas settled in 1607 and the home of the archaeological site “Historic Jamestowne” today. It has long been speculated that the harsh conditions faced by the colonists during the winter of 1609, often referred to as the “starving time,” might have made them desperate enough to participate in the unthinkable.

Aired 11/24/2015 | Rating NR

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Dark rumors surrounding Jamestown

Could the marks of the bones be evidence of cannibalism? (3m 29s)

The struggles of Jamestown in the early 1600s

In the summer of 1609, a fleet of English ships sails across the Atlantic for Jamestown. (3m 1s)

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