The Legend of Dead Darrius: The True Story of Birmingham Alabama's Urban Legend--Mummified Stuffed Boy
Dead Darrius: The original photo as it appeared on Twitter in 2019 Dead Darrius was said to be a stuffed boy whose mummified body sat on a porch in Birmingham, Alabama, between the 1950s and 1960s. Since I was a child, I have always loved a good story—not storybook stories—but real stories, the kind you hear from listening to grown folks talk on the front porch. When someone tells a good one, I immediately know if it's something I want to sink my teeth into. The Legend of Dead Darrius was that kind of story. Ivy Brook Walker found the picture on Twitter in 2019. She got to see the finished documentary in April of 2021 and told me it would go viral. She passed away from Fentanyl poisoning in June of 2021. It went viral and got a million views three to four months after she passed away. It was around midnight on January 8, 2019, when my daughter, Ivy Brook Walker, entered my room to show me a tweet and a creepy photo of a boy they called Dead Darrius. The tweet urged Birminghamians