S4 Ep12: Voodoo and Torture and Witchcraft, Oh My! The legend of the White Witch of Rose Hall

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Two centuries ago (or maybe three), a woman married a man (or maybe she didn't), cheated on him (or maybe she didn't), and he beat her (or maybe he didn't), so she killed him (or maybe she didn't), and thus the story of Annie Palmer, The White Witch of Rose Hall goes (or maybe it doesn't?)

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0:41.1	Do we create our own legacies or are they created for us when our stories get whispered over and over again and their meanings are changed?
0:52.0	Does an evil legend always start out that way?
0:56.4	Legends are living things that change with the voices of those who share them and their
1:00.9	origins can sometimes look very different from the stories we hear repeated for our titillation.
1:09.0	Welcome to Strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. I'm a writer and an actor who has encountered bad hurtful people but has never in spite of detailed fantasies
1:19.0	truly considered turning their own evil and hate back onto them.
1:23.7	I prefer to reap my revenge in the form of financial independence and creative freedom.
1:29.4	Today we will journey to the mist shrouded hills of Jamaica where a dark storied past still echoes
1:36.1	through the rooms of Rose Hall Plantation. The Rose Hall Plantation, or Rose Hall Great House, is a dramatic looking three-story whitewashed big-ass house located high on the hillside in
2:06.1	lush St James Jamaica, overlooking Montego Bay.
2:11.0	In a piece on Go Nomad.com, the author describes the house's palatial proportion saying, quote, Rose Hall was nicknamed the calendar house because it originally had 365 windows, 52 doors, and 12 bedrooms."
2:26.0	End quote.
2:27.0	That's a lot of Windex.
2:30.0	Montego Bay is a dazzling place, lush and green with swaying palm trees on 7,000 acres of land overlooking the turquoise Caribbean sea.
2:40.0	Rose Hall's high arches and doorways and its solitary balcony over the front entrance
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