The White Witch of Rose Hall. Montego Bay, Jamaica.

[dixmontasylum.]

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The White Witch of Rose Hall. ( Annie Palmer )

*Note: This more theatrical version of the story was inspired by Maxwell Haines, the famous crime historian who also wrote and retold many ghost stories. Although this is my own writing, I entitle all information to him.

The story of the White Witch of Rose Hall takes us back to 1800's, in Montego Bay, Jamacia. After her well established Father passed away, Annie Palmer, who was his only living kin at the time had succeded in taking ownership of the magnificent Gregorian style mansion of which she grew up in. The breathtakingly large and secluded house boasted more then two dozen rooms with a seperate kitchen and stables. And of course, a giant plantation filled with hundreds of black slaves from Africa – poorly fed, poorly dressed and poorly taken care of. Tales of hundreds, maybe thousands of bodies that lay dead and rotting as furilizer for her plantation vary with each telling of the story. Souls who have died at the hand of the White Witch with a most horrid temper and lack of feeling for the fellow man.
Annie grew up a very spoiled and impossible child. And as a grown woman, her ruthlessness blossomed. Although she was the very beautiful white Mistress of House, her evil ways soon began to show after she had taken her first husband, whose name is now lost to history. A ruthless lover with an unsatiable sexual appetite, she soon tired of her husband whom she pledged to love through sickness and in health, better or for worse.
Soon she found a new love, Robert Hattison. Together they plotted to murder her unknowing husband during secret meetings at the House Stables which today is supposed to be one of the most haunted locations on the entire plantation. One night while aided by a duo of her slaves, Annie Palmer killed her husband by pouring hot oil into his ear while he slept. She disposed of the body under the plantation. The whereabouts is unknown. She took Robert Pattison for her second husband and all was well.
After two years of happy marriage, Annie Palmer could not hold back her longing for murder any longer. She took a slave boy as a lover, shot him after two encounters and found another. This cycle went on and on for ten years until the entire plantation feared and loathed Annie Palmer. She was deemed the White Witch of Rose Hall and was rumored to be associated with voodoo and witchcraft. Rumors circulated that she visited the slaves at their quarters and ordered them to do humiliating and explicit things to each other while she watched. The list goes on and on of the horrific goings-on at Rose Hall.
Eventually, Annie killed her second husband by arsenic poisoning. She took a third husband, tired of him and pushed him off the third floor balcony. It was finally then did the slaves of the plantation rise up out of both fear and hate. A group murdured the White Witch in the same bed where she had pleasured and killed her husbands and lovers for over 25 years. Sometime during the 1830's, the slaves crept up to the White Witch's bedroom and slit her throat in her sleep. According to legend, the blood splatter from the fatal wound could never be removed from the walls and is there to this day under another layer of wallpaper.
The Witch was conquored and her rein of terror had ended.
Today, Rose Hall is a historical landmark, museum and restaraunt which holds daily ghost tours for those who believe the horrid stories of the White Witch of Rose Hall. Visitors have reported sightings of a beautiful woman in a white dress standing on the third floor balconey, on the staircase and in other random spots around the plantation. Mediums who have visited the plantation will never return because of the horror conducted there so many years ago. More then two hundred years have passed since the death of Annie Palmer, but to this day the mere idea still strikes fear into the hearts of those who cross its black wrought iron gates into the domain of The White Witch of Rose Hall.

[scarygirl67]

What an interesting story. Thanks for bringing it here! I found some stuff about her at scaryplaces.com, a couple of links here:

http://www.scaryplace.com/Jamaica.html

http://www.scaryplace.com/WhiteWitch.html

She vaguely reminds me of the LaLaurie House woman who is reported to haunt that area. Very evil sounding woman. The pictures that I found in the links above were really creepy as well.

[dixmontasylum.]

Golly gee, I read some of the information on The White Witch on this website and I found my version to be completely different compared to the other. LOL. I feel stupid. xD
But thank you. Actually, I read the post on the LaLaurie House ghost and it gave me the idea to write this, the story was so similar.

[scarygirl67]

Oh please don't feel stupid at all. You brought the story here, and it had the elements of what the facts were. That's what is so fascinating about ghost stories...........they are legends, but there are really intriguing facts behind those legends.

You're a wonderful writer dixmontasylum (I always have to double check to make sure I spell that right! Don't change it though....cool username!). I hope you will continue to post your very interesting writings here.

[dixmontasylum.]

(08-08-2009 08:04 PM)scarygirl67 Wrote:  Oh please don't feel stupid at all. You brought the story here, and it had the elements of what the facts were. That's what is so fascinating about ghost stories...........they are legends, but there are really intriguing facts behind those legends.

You're a wonderful writer dixmontasylum (I always have to double check to make sure I spell that right! Don't change it though....cool username!). I hope you will continue to post your very interesting writings here.

Awwe. Thank you. xD I will. I love doing them.
And some other users starting calling me Dixi in the other posts. Might as well make a fad. lol.
I really appreciate the positive comments you always have for me. Thank you. =)

[Bracket]

I've heard of this. If i remember right, it was on the Travel Channel with paranormal investigators investigating her house.

[dixmontasylum.]

Yes. The first time I ever heard of Rose Hall and Annie Palmer was while watching Scariest Places on Earth. That could be it. I dont recall any other paranormal investigation shows ever covering it.