DNA analysis has shed light on the mysterious origins of a strange youth who appeared "seemingly out of nowhere" in 1828.

When teenage orphan Kaspar Hauser was discovered wandering around a public square in Nuremberg, Germany in 1828, it sparked an enduring 200-year mystery. Unable to read or write, Hauser claimed to ...

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So reads the headstone (translated from Latin) marking the grave of the enigmatic man known as Kaspar Hauser, who died in 1833. Nearly 200 years later, scientists have finally solved a longstandin ...

He could barely walk and only spoke a single sentence, claiming he had been kept in a dark cellar his entire life. This boy was Kaspar Hauser, whose mysterious background baffled the people of Europe.