Rose hall is the great mansion and most beautiful house in Jamaica. It is a Georgian mansion with a stone base and a plastered upper storey , high on the hill is side, with a fantastic panaroma over the coast. It was built in 1770's.
BEAUTIFUL MANSION OF ROSE HALL, JAMAICA |
Rose Hall was restored in 1960 to its former splendour , with mahogony floors , interior windows and doorways , panelling and wooden ceilings. It is decorated with silk wallpapers printed with palms and birds, ornamented with chandeliers and furnished with mostly European antiques. It has a bar downstairs and a restaurant.
PHOTOGRAPH OF ANNIE PALMER AND THE HALL |
We are almost dumb reading the beauty of this great mansion but there were loss of many lives in the same house. This house was a haunted one. Rose Hall is related to the famous story of its mistress Annie Palmer, who came into this house in 1820.
It has a fanciful legends of undergrounding tunnels, bloodstains and hauntings. A renowed beauty , Annie Palmer was widely feared as a black magician. She was born in England to an English mother and Irish father and spent most of her life in Haiti.
Her parents died of Yellow fever. Later she was adopted by her nanny who taught her witchcraft and voodoo. She moved to Jamaica and married John Palmer, Owner of Rose Hall Plantation. Annie murdered him.
THE SCARY NIGHT AT ROSE HALL |
It was also said that she killed her three husbands by poison, by stabbing and then pouring boiling oil into his ears, and by strangling. She also killed her innumerable lovers and slaves whom she simply killed them because she was bored of them.
She was 4ft 11inches. Unable to tolerate her acts, she was murdered on her bed by her own slave Takoo . It was said that the soul of Annie Palmer and her slaves and the husbands whom she killed were haunting the great Rose Hall in Montego BaY of Jamaica.
We can find the beauty of the house if we visit this mansion. You need to be very careful while passing the picture of Annie Palmer because she is always following you with her eyes.
REAL PHOTOGRAPH OF ANNIE |
Contemporary music can be heard if we hear with keen concentration and we feel like someone are tapping the walls. Sometimes we hear scary noises entering the house. It was believed that the soul of Annie Palmer still haunts the house and she is 5 feet tall as witnessed.
TOMB OF ANNIE PALMER |
Many years after the death of Annie, this house was left unoccupied. Later a couple bought the house. But sooner the wife was fallen from the place where Annie used to enjoy her evenings observing nature. The wife later broke her neck. The fall was very fatal and believed that the Annie's spirit pushed her.
MIRROR VIEW |
Many visitors report strange images appearing in their photographs.Some report the appearance of woman's face in the mirror in Annie's bedroom others have reported glowing or fog
MIRROR IN WHICH ANNIE FACE WAS FOUND |
REST ROOM |
Annie's ghost has been seen at night riding her horse around the plantation's grounds looking perhaps for runaway slaves. Her ghost has also been seen standing on the balcony overlooking the property.
DOWNSTAIRS WAY TO TUNNEL UNDERGROUND |
The most common place where Annie's ghost is seen is her bedroom, where she would kill her lovers. Underground tunnels that are said to be haunted run under the house and mysterious bloodstains are sometimes found throughout the house.
BEDROOM OF ANNIE WHERE SHE WAS KILLED |
Its really exciting and mindblowing experience who want to haunt this location. Surely we could find a mystery.
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