The "American Horror Story" episode "Birth" relates a fictional legend in which the Lost Colonists mysteriously died, and their ghosts haunted the local Native Americans until a tribal elder banished them with the word "Croatoan". This premise is expanded upon in the sixth season of the series, "", which presents a series of fictional television programs documenting encounters with the ghost colonists. The leader of the undead colonists, "", is depicted as John White's wife Thomasin, although there is no historical evidence that she was one of the colonists.