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.
#weirdhistory #History #psychology #popularscience #unsolvedmystery
@MamatraNy
October 2, 2024 at 11:58 am
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@xxacidmv
October 2, 2024 at 11:58 am
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@pexfmezccle
October 2, 2024 at 11:59 am
0:01 Vsauce2 being yet another youtuber who grooms minors
@vick229
October 2, 2024 at 12:08 pm
3D
@janyung8629
October 2, 2024 at 12:16 pm
We used to smoke doinks on the place where he got stabbed 🤔
@JohnJones-oy3md
October 2, 2024 at 12:22 pm
4:19 – Oh no, here come the Stroszek flashbacks. Perfect casting for this role, BTW, as Bruno S. was quite the nutter in real life.
@memofromessex
October 2, 2024 at 1:50 pm
Werent’ all of Herzog actors?!
@JohnJones-oy3md
October 2, 2024 at 12:42 pm
13:40 – Never relax.
@aL3891_
October 2, 2024 at 12:51 pm
first thought i had was “isnt that a little old to play a kid?” 😛
@arcanics1971
October 2, 2024 at 1:01 pm
Didn’t we establish that “Jeanie” was actually Susan?
@JohnJones-oy3md
October 2, 2024 at 1:04 pm
30:52 – If I close my eyes I can almost see Kamala Harris delivering these lines.
@ecocodex4431
October 2, 2024 at 1:21 pm
Love the videos, but I REALLY wish you would stop the fake voice cracking, it’s kinda annoying.
@basseldahdouh8736
October 2, 2024 at 1:33 pm
Put ur face on the thumbnail, trust.
I like your content, not the channel
@memofromessex
October 2, 2024 at 2:06 pm
That was a nice philosophical ending.
@lastnamefirstname8655
October 2, 2024 at 2:33 pm
nice video! thanks kevin and popular science! very interesting mystery case!
@TwasADream22
October 2, 2024 at 2:58 pm
Love these videos!
@X-Chë-X
October 2, 2024 at 4:48 pm
He’s just this guy, you know?
@Arcin00
October 2, 2024 at 4:58 pm
He was pretty clearly just a huckster, no one should’ve been surprised he wasn’t royalty which some people just thought up because it would’ve been cool
@whoisWAZz
October 2, 2024 at 5:04 pm
Youtube not promoting your videos is just criminal
@sabakobakhidze9745
October 2, 2024 at 6:52 pm
We should click on his vids as soon as we see them. Yt will recommend them more this way.
@jorgerincon6874
October 2, 2024 at 5:21 pm
Did you just make a mistake?
This is clearly a Vsause2 video but it was somehow uploaded to the popular channel 🤔
@RobertRedland
October 2, 2024 at 7:03 pm
I’m baffled why a scientist would waste time and resources to “solve” what is obviously not a real problem.
@YouTube.Is.Run.By.Terrorists
October 2, 2024 at 8:37 pm
Mysteries don’t have to be “problems” to be solved…
@materialmirage
October 2, 2024 at 7:10 pm
Kaspar!!!!!!
@BeeCeeJay
October 2, 2024 at 7:36 pm
Always happy to see Kevin in my feed. As always, thank you for making this, sir.
@TheDopekitty
October 2, 2024 at 8:36 pm
Interesting