Fact or Fiction?

Caribbean culture has many stories to include the haunting of large mansions, witchcraft and voodoo.

A true vacation will have you learning about their culture and leave you at times wondering.

Let us talk about the Rose Hall Plantation. Your vacation to Jamaica won’t be complete without visiting this historic site.

According to some people, there are terrible secrets lurking behind the beautiful facade.

Local legend holds that Rose Hall is haunted by its former mistress, the “White Witch” Annie Parker.

Annie Palmer was born in Haiti where her parents died of yellow fever and she was raised by a woman who taught her witchcraft and voodoo. She moved to Jamaica and married John Palmer, the owner of Rose Hall.

The legend says that Annie was a powerful practitioner of dark magic with a controlling and violent streak who murdered not only John, but two subsequent husbands.

Her reign of terror came to an end when she crossed another powerful magician, a slave named Takoo. Takoo murdered Annie Palmer using a combination of black magic and physical violence. Annie Palmer is supposedly buried in a tomb on the grounds. Local lore says that her tomb was meant to be sealed with a Voodoo ritual that would have kept her spirit imprisoned forever. However, the ritual was never completed.

People claim to have witnessed Palmer’s ghost riding her horse around the plantation. She is also sometimes seen on the balcony.

Annie Palmer’s ghost roams free at the Rose Hall Great house.

What do you think fact or fiction?

Would you visit this historic location with the hope of knowing the truth?