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The Most Famous Mystery We’ll NEVER Solve

[YouTube Age-Restricted the previous upload. This is a new censored version.] Nearly 200 years ago, a mysterious teen boy arrived in Nuremberg. The event ignited the Kaspar Hauser story: a tale of weird history, an unsolved mystery that endures today, and a battle between the ancient lore of a feral child and the power of…

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October 3, 2024

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[YouTube Age-Restricted the previous upload. This is a new censored version.]

Nearly 200 years ago, a mysterious teen boy arrived in Nuremberg. The event ignited the Kaspar Hauser story: a tale of weird history, an unsolved mystery that endures today, and a battle between the ancient lore of a feral child and the power of modern forensics.

When Kaspar Hauser arrived, he could barely speak at all, but he eventually was able to say that he had been kept in a dungeon for his entire life until he was dropped off in the city. How did he get there? How could a boy who had never walked in his life make the journey? How could he write his own name?

The details of Kaspar’s origins were compelling… to a degree. He was surrounded by both a city of devoted supporters and a growing cadre of skeptics. And his arrival kicked off a saga including a series of assassination attempts, hidden genius, and a total inability to tell what’s actually true and what’s a lie.

It’s why Kaspar Hauser’s mystery continues today, and even with modern forensic breakthroughs and DNA testing improving by the decade, we know only a portion of the truth. And it seems as though the more capable we are at arriving at the real Kaspar Hauser story, the less we actually know.

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@popularscience

October 3, 2024 at 10:46 am

YouTube Age-Restricted the previous version of this video so I’ve been forced to change it to comply with their policies. There are no meaningful changes to the information but hopefully it adheres to their standards because Age-Restriction is a catastrophic gating mechanism for videos. It dramatically reduces the visibility of the video on the platform. Thank you for understanding and please enjoy the video. -Kevin

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- @lastnamefirstname8655
  
  October 3, 2024 at 10:54 am
  
  i get it. thanks kevin!
  
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- @sarasa-sarason
  
  October 3, 2024 at 10:56 am
  
  Commenting for engagement!!!!!!111oneone
  
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- @vick229
  
  October 3, 2024 at 10:57 am
  
  Thank you Kevin for re-uploading this great story
  
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- @Vance254
  
  October 3, 2024 at 10:57 am
  
  Thank you Kevin for re-uploading this great story
  
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- @heathersowder2836
  
  October 3, 2024 at 11:01 am
  
  I’m sorry YouTube keeps hurting your content. Me and my 4 kids watched yesterday and I can’t understand why it is age restricting this video. I’m watching again now to help the views.
  
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- @c.jishnu378
  
  October 3, 2024 at 11:13 am
  
  What exactly did you change? It may give a better idea for me and those trying to study the algorithm.
  
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@erictaylor5462

October 10, 2024 at 5:36 pm

7:50 A lot of people have said the same thing about Trump.

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@erictaylor5462

October 10, 2024 at 5:48 pm

Cameron, in Faris Buller’s Day Off was 29 when the movie was made, though he was meant to be 17 or 18.

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- @ACWhoCares2
  
  November 2, 2024 at 5:00 am
  
  Ok but that works still better than a 40 year old playing a 16 year old, even a disabled one, lol. I feel man mainly just need to shave their beards eventually…which they obviously did not here.
  
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@georgemonde8237

October 11, 2024 at 3:01 am

Casper the ghost

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@opensourceq

October 11, 2024 at 8:21 am

kaspar hauser lied is a pretty good song by glocca morra

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@HardDriveGuruOfficial

October 11, 2024 at 9:31 pm

I call shenanigans just based on the bread bit. It’s not possible for anyone, especially a growing child, to survive for years on only bread and water, let alone have a remotely healthy appearance.

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@andybryant3052

October 13, 2024 at 8:18 am

Maybe this is where they got the phrase “Village idiot “

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@deborahb-o8h

October 15, 2024 at 9:09 am

WAY too enthusiastic narrator – calm down guy

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@ECCL11

October 15, 2024 at 12:07 pm

Well now, there’s 31:31 of my life I’ll never get back.

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@WadeRaney-vv5oi

October 19, 2024 at 9:02 am

Could this have been Mental health problems?????

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@WadeRaney-vv5oi

October 19, 2024 at 9:02 am

Could this have been Mental health problems?🤔

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@Nooticus

October 24, 2024 at 7:07 pm

Hey Kevin, I knew you had a different channel apart from Vsauce2, but I had ZERO IDEA that you were making the same types of vsauce2 videos on here. You should do a community post on Vsauce2 telling people!

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@NootiUK

October 24, 2024 at 7:07 pm

Hey Kevin, I knew you had a different channel apart from Vsauce2, but I had ZERO IDEA that you were making the same types of vsauce2 videos on here. You should do a community post on Vsauce2 telling people!

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@hueyang00

October 27, 2024 at 1:36 am

Sounds like the imposter who pretended to be Nicolas Barclay

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@aelolul

October 28, 2024 at 7:00 pm

You have good taste in Gojira albums 🙂

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@Ned_Tallywhacker

October 30, 2024 at 2:05 pm

This reminds me of Perkin Warbeck or Lambert Simnel

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@michaelsaunders1400

November 1, 2024 at 9:01 pm

So _that’s_ why this video doesn’t appear on the original channel…

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@ACWhoCares2

November 2, 2024 at 4:47 am

Oha! I remember this story being told in Religion in 5th grade with the result that the nightmares of my classmates gave me nightmares myself. I think I’ve stayed away from this story since then and maybe only watched into 1 docuemtnary or something. But now I think of disabillties as well.

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@ACWhoCares2

November 2, 2024 at 5:01 am

Isn’t it weird that some day 2024 will/could eventually be as far away to whatever kind of human(oid) beings left behind as 1830s is /seems to us?

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- @inregionecaecorum
  
  December 27, 2024 at 12:01 pm
  
  1974 when the movie came out seems almost that far back. I was closer to Kaspar’s age than Bruno S was then.
  
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@fpst9915

November 6, 2024 at 1:30 am

Fact is, Kasper was quarter Black as also was his mother Stephanie de Beauharnais, who was the daughter of Napoleons wife Josephine through her 1.marriage, who herself was born Josephine Tascher de Pagerie from Martinique. A creole. You can look that up. It is not difficult. They but also think we are dumb.

So, we cannot really be sure the photos which are shown to us via Internet are all correct.

I mean, why else would they hyde from us, Europes nobility was black?

And if there are fraudstern in the house of Baden, it is no wonder the DNA did not match.

Come on guys, question the narrative. Do you honestly think, THEY are telling us the whole truth?

But nevertheless it will come to the surface one day.

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@Gamble661

November 21, 2024 at 2:03 pm

Another unbelievable part of his story; no one would be able to stay alive living on just bread and water for that amount of time.

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@niveketihw1897

November 25, 2024 at 9:41 pm

Didn’t David Cross do this in an episode of Just Shoot me?

Chicken pot pie chicken pot pie chicken pot pie

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@hellemarc4767

November 27, 2024 at 10:19 pm

The shoe footprint wouldn’t have helped, they didn’t have mass-produced shoes with rubber soles and brand-specific patterns in them…

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- @shadowmax889
  
  February 26, 2025 at 7:34 pm
  
  But that also means that every shoe footprint is almost100% unique, and it would be easier to identify by the police
  
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@Redhead77

November 28, 2024 at 1:40 pm

FWIW – I grew up without my father in my life. I met him when I was 25 years old. We had little in common – same favorite color, same favorite food … and our handwriting was identical.

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- @splashenful
  
  November 4, 2025 at 2:04 pm
  
  Wow!!!!!
  
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@melflo4651

November 28, 2024 at 9:53 pm

We need Sherlock Homes!!!

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@intermedia1906

November 29, 2024 at 9:46 am

For many families, it was all a matter of reputation. If you had a disabled child or relative, that kicked you down a couple of notches in the pecking order, if you brought them with you, that brought shame on those you visited. This kind of attitude prevails when there is not a general acceptance in society of disabled persons as contributing people with feelings, abilities, and ambitions. Disabled people teach us every day that what they CAN do is usually far beyond what we assume if they get some societal support.

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@fsabot19022

December 1, 2024 at 9:51 am

We already know that if children are kept in isolation for that long they can never develop much further. Kasper was just a con artist.

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@Legion22222

December 1, 2024 at 9:51 am

We already know that if children are kept in isolation for that long they can never develop much further. Kasper was just a con artist.

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@MichaelReyes-c7x

December 7, 2024 at 9:08 am

42 is the Now 16????

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@MichaelReyes-c7x

December 7, 2024 at 9:08 am

42 is the Now 16😂

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@lifeofasinglekazakh

February 23, 2025 at 5:29 am

There’s one thing missing in the story: Hauser used to mention of playing with a wooden horse toy and it was found in the castle in Baden in the 21st cent during the restoration works.

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- @splashenful
  
  November 4, 2025 at 2:07 pm
  
  Toy horses were very common back in the day (probably still are).
  
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@jonbecker2544

March 13, 2025 at 7:24 am

The greatest mystery that may never be solved started 25 years ago, but we may never know who let those damn dogs out

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@owendurant7873

March 22, 2025 at 8:20 pm

Seems like he was a street kid that had to lie and con people to get by, was really good at it, and decided to try something to escape what fate delt him. No conspiracy.

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@michealwestfall8544

April 27, 2025 at 10:50 am

If he was lying, how did he come up with the story? Maybe, his origin is true in spirit, but not in fact. Maybe his captor made a false letter with real details because he was close to royalty.

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@dwatts64

October 19, 2025 at 9:28 pm

I’ll be honest: I question the intelligence and overall critical thinking skills of anyone that hears this story in the modern era (post 2005-ish, so anyone with access to modern internet and search tools like Google) and thinks for a second that Kasper was anything but a con man.

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@rainroberts7276

October 26, 2025 at 8:39 pm

In 2024, a scientific study ruled out Hauser’s princely descent by comparing mitochondrial DNA haplotypes with the House of Baden.

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@michaelshore2300

January 27, 2026 at 4:07 pm

All proven a hoax years ago

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