Ghosts in Jamaica: the mysterious Rose Hall mansion and the legend of the White Witch (12 photos + 1 video)
To make a place interesting and profitable, it is enough to take a little truth and generously add legends to it. And you will get a successful project, similar to the history of the Rose Hall mansion. 
Rose Hall Great House is one of the most famous houses in Jamaica. First of all, the house and the grounds of Rose Hall are stunningly beautiful. The main building is located on the top of a hill, offering a wonderful view of the sea and the golf course, which now occupies the territory of a former plantation. The beauty of the house contrasts sharply with the eerie history associated with the mansion. 
Rose Hall was a mansion built by Palmyra Plantation owner John Palmer, who named the main house after his wife, Rose. The plantation era was a dark time in Jamaica's history, when wealthy whites owned the land and bought and sold black slaves to work it. Slaves were generally treated worse than animals on the plantations. 
An engraving from James Hakewill's "A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, from Drawings Made in the Years 1820 and 1821" (1825)
When the owners of Rose Hall passed away, the house and plantation were passed down through the generations. Eventually, it fell into the hands of a man named John Rose Palmer and his young wife, Annie. 
The girl's parents moved to Haiti when she was very young, and then died (most likely from yellow fever) when she was only 10 years old. The poor girl was left an orphan with no relatives on the island. Her Haitian nanny was a Voodoo priestess. 
She adopted young Annie and raised her, teaching her the traditions of Voodoo. When Annie was only 18, her nanny died, and she went to Jamaica in search of a rich husband. There, Annie met John Rose Palmer and soon became Mrs. Palmer. 
This is believed to be a portrait of Annie with her children
Annie Palmer did not immediately receive the title of the White Witch of Rose Hall. According to legend, shortly after the wedding, Annie tired of her husband and killed him by poisoning him with arsenic. After the death of her first husband, Annie began to run the plantation in her own way, tormenting and tormenting the slaves. 
Annie used bear traps to catch slaves who tried to escape. Once caught, she would throw them into the dungeons beneath the house to die a painful death. 
Rose Hall before the renovation
The cruelty wasn't limited to adults: children had to carry water to the main house in a heavy wooden bucket, and if they spilled a drop, they were beaten. She was also rumored to have used voodoo curses or the threat of them to control her slaves. 
There is a cross on three sides of the tombstone. Legend has it that it was not placed on the fourth side so that Annie's spirit could roam the plantation freely
Bloodthirsty Annie killed two more husbands - poisoning them, passing off their deaths as escaping from illness. And to cover her tracks, she did not let anyone near the bodies and drowned them in the sea. It is believed that the only way to deal with the witch was during sex. The slaves conspired, and the White Witch was stabbed with a knife by one of her slave lovers named Takoo. 
A grave believed to belong to Annie Palmer in Rose Hall
Legend has it that Annie's ghost haunts Rose Hall to this day. The White Witch was buried, or rather, walled up underground, on the plantation grounds. The slaves fled, and the mansion gradually fell into disrepair. That is until new owners bought it and turned it into a landmark - a wonderful 18th-century colonial-style house-museum. 
This is a truly magnificent old mansion
This is a gathering place for spiritualistic sessions, for lovers of devilry and voodoo magic, hoping to summon the ghost of a woman who abused slaves and died almost 200 years ago, and for ordinary tourists in search of beauty and solitude. So this atmospheric place in the city of Montego Bay is definitely recommended for visiting by people with a wide variety of interests. 
