The Legend of Dead Darrius: The True Story of Birmingham Alabama's Urban Legend--Mummified Stuffed Boy
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. The boy who sat on the front porch known as Dead Darrius (Credit: File Photo Traciy Curry-Reyes) Ivy Brook Walker 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 to ask their parents about the story. Ivy asked me if I'd heard of it. I hadn't. But the photo intrigued me. I got right up and scoured the Internet for hours trying to find information about this boy th...