For Months I Filmed a “Crazy” Stray Dog Who Sat Motionless in Front of a Dirty Concrete Wall Every Night for Internet Views — But the Day Bulldozers Finally Tore It Down, What We Found Beneath Made an Entire Town Wish We Had Never Laughed at Him

PART 1 — The Dog Everyone Turned Into Entertainment

Crazy stray dog guarding a wall.

That was the phrase that built my online following faster than anything I had ever posted before, and at the time I thought it was harmless entertainment, just another strange local story turned into viral content. My name is Ethan Brooks, a freelance videographer living in a …