The Rose Hall Great House: A Haunted Place In Montego Bay, Jamaica
Rose Hall is considered one of the most haunted places in the world, thanks to the infamous “White Witch.”
The most famous house in Jamaica, Rose Hall Great House is a Georgian mansion that was built in the 1770s. The paranormal activity that abounds in this house is credited to the legend of Annie Palmer, a.k.a. the White Witch.
Annie Palmer was a voodoo practitioner who arrived in 1820. During her time there, she brutally killed her three husbands, various lovers, and slaves.
According to legend, Palmer moved to Jamaica in the early 1800s in search of a wealthy husband. She locked down the owner of the Rose Hall Estate, John Palmer, and not long after the pair had married, she poisoned him.
She repeated this pattern of marrying and killing her husbands twice more. Palmer also ruled over the plantation savagely, torturing, beating, and killing anyone on the property who went against her.
Wikimedia CommonsA tomb that is alleged to be the final resting place of Annie Palmer.
Eventually, Palmer was murdered in her sleep by one of her enslaved lovers, Takoo, after she killed one of his family members. Takoo was a voodoo practitioner as well and performed a ritual to keep Palmer in her grave, apparently fearing an attack from her even after her death.
However, the ritual was never completed and the rumors say that her spirit still roams the home’s grounds to this very day.
Her ghost has been captured in various tourist photos over the years. But even those who don’t see her claim to feel her presence. Other ghostly manifestations in the house include hurried footsteps, whispers in the dungeon, faces in the mirror, babies crying, and tapping on the walls.
The Whaley House: A Haunted Place In San Diego, California
Wikimedia CommonsNumerous spirits are said to lurk in the Whaley House, one of the most haunted places in the world.
The Whaley House in San Diego’s Old Town was officially labeled the most haunted place in the United States by the U.S. Commerce Department in the 1960s. The house was constructed in 1857 by Thomas Whaley, on a partial cemetery, and over the centuries it accumulated some “restless spirits.”
One of the earliest documented ghosts on the property is James Robinson, a small-time criminal who was better known as “Yankee Jim.” He was hanged to death off the back of a wagon in 1852 on the home’s property. And many accounts say that the ghost of Yankee Jim never left.
Spirits reported at the Whaley House have included children, adults, and even animals.
Other spirits sighted include Whaley and his wife, Whaley’s daughter, and the family dog, Dolly Varden, who is said to lick the bare legs of women.
Another ghostly presence that people have claimed to see is that of a young girl, who usually appears in the dining room. Sybil Leek, a psychic who visited the property in 1960, claims to have encountered this little girl’s spirit, saying, “It was a long-haired girl. She was very quick, you know, in a longish dress. She went to the table in this room and I went to the chair.”
Some speculate that this mysterious spirit belongs to a playmate of the Whaley children who died when she accidentally broke her neck on a low-hanging clothesline in the home’s backyard.
It’s easy for skeptics to explain away a couple of ghost sightings at the home, but the sheer number of paranormal experiences in this one location makes you wonder what is really going on at the Whaley House and whether or not it is, in fact, one of America’s most haunted places.
