A man from Charlotte, North Carolina, is speaking out following the mysterious death of his mother, Dana Jackson, while she was a vodou retreat in Haiti.
Timothy Jackson shared his experience with WSOC-TV, explaining how he found out about his mother‘s passing. Dana traveled to Haiti on July 1 for a retreat, feeling a calling to practice vodou, but she never returned home.
Timothy expressed his relief when she arrived safely in Haiti and they maintained communication through WhatsApp, where she sent him photos and videos from her trip.
The last message
He said last message he received from her was on July 12, but the text shows the 13th, in which she mentioned attending church the next day and asked for prayers.
“She said, ‘Hey, we’re going to church tomorrow.’ And then she said, ‘We’re going in for this last piece. Pray for us.”
He was expecting to hear from her again on July 21, but that communication never came.
The following day, he received a call from his grandmother informing him of his mother‘s death.
“Be quite honest, I lost it at work. I just lost it at work, he told WSOC-TV. “That’s my best friend. I lost it. Nothing else to say. I just lost it.”
Dana’s cause of death remains a mystery
The circumstances surrounding Dana‘s passing remains a mystery; Timothy was initially told she had fallen ill, and later received various explanations including a panic attack, stroke, heart attack, and seizures.
He has only received his mother’s death certificate, which is written in Haitian Creole. Timothy is seeking closure and wants to uncover the truth about what happened.
“I’ve been told so many stories of what happened and what transpired. Just trying to figure out what’s the truth?” he said. “What’s the truth? So that we can start healing.”
To help bring his mother’s body back to Charlotte, he has set up a GoFundMe page for donations.
This is a sad story; may the family be comforted! The death certificate shown in the news about this is not written in Haitian-Creole – it is written in French, and the cause of death can be read clearly on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQesFOAdpU
It says on on the first line that the cause of death was, “Mort Cérébrale,” which is French for, “Brain death.”
The next line says that there was, “Fibrillation auriculaire P/B” which means “probable atrial fibrillation.”
Finally, it says, “AVC ischémique vs. hémorragique” – which means, “ischemic vs. hemorrhagic stroke.”
So it seems from the death certificate that this woman had an abnormal heart rhythm (…atrial fibrillation?) which led to a stroke, which then led to brain death. This is very sad, but it doesn’t seem that mysterious – many people with heart conditions die this way. Why is this being presented as a mysterious death?
IDK why Sosyete Nago not Maude Evans is not mentioned in this or other articles