KASPAR HAUSER

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On 26th May 1828, the people of Nuremberg found a teenage boy who was wandering alone through the streets...

...when they came across him, he had no possessions except for two old letters.

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Kaspar, the boy, spent the next two months in prison, where he hardly spoke and refused to eat.

Because of his behaviour and appearance, they took him to the police station...

GERMAN MYSTERY STORY: KASPAR HAUSER

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Kaspar said he had spent his whole childhood in a small, dark cell. He had never seen the world outside that cell.

Kaspar became well-known in Germany and in other countries too, and people found his story fascinating.

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Some suggested that Kaspar was the son of a rich and powerful man who wanted to keep his identity secret.

He claimed that he had found bread and water in his cell every morning. A mysterious man had begun to visit him shortly before his release. The man never showed his face.

A STORY STILL UNSOLVED TODAY

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A schoolteacher called Friedrich Daumer met Kaspar and agreed to look after him. He enjoyed Kaspar's talent for drawing.

He claimed that a man with a hood over his face had attacked him, the same man who brought him to Nuremberg.

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It wasn't a serious injury, and Kaspar got over.

One day in 1829, Kaspar was found with a knife wound to his head.

a fascinating story for lots of people

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But in 1883, Hauser came with a deep knife wound in his chest...

Three days later, Kaspar died from the wound.

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Kaspar told the police that his attacker had given him a bag, so the police went to the garden and looked for it.

...saying someone had attacked him in a garden.

did kaspar tell a true story?

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Many people concluded that Kaspar was a liar and that he killed himself by mistake.

They found it, with a note inside...

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For others, his existence and death remains a mystery.

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The note said: "I want to tell you about myself; I come from the Bavarian border, on the river."

WHO WAS KASPAR IN REALITY?