White Witch of Rose Hall (Annie Palmer)
The White Witch of Rose Hall is Jamaica most famous ghost story -- the restless spirit of Annie Palmer, the cruel mistress of Rose Hall Plantation in Montego Bay, who allegedly murdered three husbands and countless enslaved workers through her practice of black magic (obeah). According to legend, Annie Palmer was born in England but raised in Haiti, where she learned voodoo from her Haitian nurse. She came to Jamaica as a young woman and married John Palmer, the wealthy owner of Rose Hall. Dissatisfied with her marriage, she murdered him and then married and killed two more husbands. She also