In addition, some people think croatoan meant some sort of disease or virus. It does explain the graves found, and there is other accounts of the virus. In other cases, people like Edgar Allen Poe have mentioned “croatoan”. On his death bed, Poe, in a state of delirium, whispered the word croatoan over and over again. Before Amelia Earhart disappeared, there was a journal she had left behind where she had scribbled croatoan on one of the pages. Also, horror writer Ambrose Bierce carved the word into his bed post before he disappeared in Mexico. The notorious Black Bart scratched the same word onto his cell wall before he also disappeared. Finally, the ship “Carroll A. Deering” ran aground near Hatteras Island with the word croatoan written
