10 Haunted Details Surrounding The Rose Hall Great House’s Paranormal Activity

6 /10 The White Witch

Annie was a cruel landlady. Whatever standards the slaves lived under before, she made them worse in a powerful way.

She arranged bear traps in the field to catch any slaves that might try to run free, used ornate and painful collars to keep them chained, and if any slave – man, woman, or even child – so much as spill a drop from a bucket she would send them to the dungeon under the manor for torture and death.

And even in that time, she still took on lovers whom she threatened to control with voodoo magic, rites, and practices known and feared by the native people she commanded.

5 /10 Witchy Woman

Annie couldn’t just be a single woman owning land and running a business in the 1800s; it just wasn’t done.

So she remarried, brought on other rich, fine young men, and slowly killed them.

She remarried twice, but the entire time it was clear she was the only person in control as she freely did what she wanted to her slaves and willingly killed her husbands, assumedly for their inheritance.

Over this time, she also had several children, famously painted within a portrait that hangs in the manor to this day—a picture with eyes that might follow you around the room.

4 /10 The Turnabout

In 1821, things reached a breaking point between Annie and one of her favored slave lovers, a man known as Takoo.

Finally fed up with being reigned by the terror of the White Witch, which was what all the slaves called her at that point, he used his privilege to come and go from the basement dungeon to sneak up to her room and strangle her to death in her bed.

That was the end of Annie Palmer, but only the beginning of her haunting.

3 /10 Burnt Out

The legend ends with the slaves ransacking the manor that held them captive and burying Annie a short distance away before burning it down.

The mansion was later restored, and Annie’s body was given a semi-proper burial in a stone coffin. The coffin was marked with crosses on each side, except for one so her spirit could leave to wander.

It may have been done intentionally – or might have washed off due to some witchy-powers so Annie could keep an eye on the manor forever.

2 /10 The Legend Of Rose Hall

After all this history and tragedy, it’s important to note that very little of it has been proven as fact. There was a Palmer ownership of the Rose Hall, and it did have a downstairs area where slaves were kept.

But the fires rendered much historical evidence to ashes. An Annie Palmer did exist at the time but had no relation to Rose Hall and wasn’t the woman described.

There was also Rosa Palmer, the original mistress of Rose Hall, who was very virtuous and kind.

1 /10 Great House Tours

The Great House has since been reclaimed and reconstructed and now stands as a museum to the legend of Annie Palmer and the history of Jamaican slave plantations as a whole.

Many guests to the manor claim to have some ghostly encounter on their tours, from the painting with moving eyes to eerie presences scattered throughout the home, and even sightings of a woman in red with a sinister expression waiting down the hall and disappearing without a trace.