 The legend was elaborated by the journalist John Castello in 1868.Castello was the owner of the local Falmouth Post when he published a small pamphlet "Legend of Rose Hall" where he erroneously describes a memorial in St. James church to "Anne Palmer".An investigation of the legend in 2007 by Benjamin Radford concluded that the story was fictionalized, modeled on the title character in a famous Jamaican novel, "The White Witch of Rosehall" by Herbert G. de Lisser, published in 1929.