he also could have had ptsd and tried to kill himself or hurt himself or had hallucinations that caused him to self-harm? also he might have been put in captivity only more recently and just didn't recall earlier memories where he wasn't tortured, which would explain his stunted but not completely destroyed mental state
I was thinking the same thing. He could have lied about a couple things but I see it as more of his way of a cry for help. Many people who self harm do it for another reason but some do it as a way to communicate their pain to others. Most people wouldn't believe that whats going on inside of them cannot be so painful so they resort to physical pain as "proof". Or he could have developed dissociative identity disorder. That would also explain why he only remembers few things from his childhood. He could have been telling the truth. Many people with DID especially the alters, have pasts of their own, lives and memories completely different to other people in the "system". But who knows
He was switched at birth with a bying baby. The person who was asked to murder the baby (Kaspar) laid his own dying baby into the crib of the King of Baden and took Kaspar in as his own. He introduced Kaspar to Stephanie as his own and wanted to give her comfort and let her hold her own son unknowingly of course otherwise he would have been in trouble for switching the babies. Kaspar later had memory flashbacks where he remembered his mother and the castle. He revealed those flashbacks to the spy who was monitoring him every day (a man from England he made friends with) and this man leaked all that information to those who wanted their males to get the throne and that's when they tried to assassinate Kaspar and then eventually they stabbed him to death when he was outside of the house to prevent him from further leaking out information and possibly taking the throne of Baden which was his legitimate inheritance.
According to one version of the story, when he first made his appearance in town, the bottoms of his feet were still rounded outward the way babies are before they learn to walk. If true, this is not something a deceitful individual could fake. The fact that he never developed a decent set of personal ethics is beside the point of whether he was confined as a child or was of royal lineage.
He wasn't a feral child, but he was developmentally disabled. I think the kid probably was kidnapped/confined for some time and had PTSD that made him forget most of his life from before, _and_ he had munchausens he picked up after he received so much positive attention initially.
It's quite possible Kaspar had autism from the knowledge you've mentioned in this video. A lot of the things you described him doing at the beginning of the video are some traits of autism, such as him having a limited diet, repeating people's words a lot and him very sensitive to light and sound. Quite possibly he had another mental illness as well.
As an autistic person there’s a definite possibility he was on the spectrum. How most of his repetitive statements centered around horsemanship could probably be a sign of a special interest.
It’s not really possible to diagnose people who have long since passed away. There may be interesting tie-ins here, but also, one size does not fit all with autism. Not everyone in our community is a picky eater, for example. Sensitivity to light and sound is present in many, but not this extreme. Point being, the explanation is more than a little reductive - and it’s very difficult to know if the child actually would have had trouble socializing if he’d ever been socialized properly at all. Those with autism have difficulty with that even under ordinary circumstances… pretty much any kid would go insane and be distrustful if they grew up locked in a dark box for ten years. The comparison is pretty unfair.
I have a child on the spectrum and I was thinking the same thing. Everyone who has it experiences it differently but there are some traits that are commonly seen in people who have it (picky eating, light sensitivity, etc). obviously we'll never know for sure but it's a possibility. Everyone has survival strategies and imagine what it would have been like to have it during that era... which is known for it's compassion towards things it didn't understand [hopefully obvious sarcasm] (which also might explain the being locked in a dark room part)
Maybe he was abused/neglected locked in a dark room by his parents/guardians. And as a result just went mad hallucinated people talking to him and trying to get him and hurt himself as part of it.
“Seeking attention” is a strange criticism. Every human needs attention. It sounds like while possibly being on the spectrum, he also had clear trauma and mental illness. And sadly it sounds like he struggled with suicidal urges which he tried to hide
No, humans seek affection, not attention. Attention and affection aren't the same thing. Attention seeking is an unhealthy and vapid behavior that goes beyond our normal social needs for belonging and affection.
Adam Hitze I always loved listening to my older relatives telling their most ‘weird’ life stories! As a young child I was obsessed with cultural history. This world has changed beyond imagination in such a short period of time...changed for the better!! Civilisation (for the vast majority of ‘working class’ (normal) people) really hasn’t been around for very long.
My father is a World War II scholar and University professor. It always bothered me, having to look at all the books, many with Adolph's ugly mug on the covers. I think there's a disconnect with people who don't marinate in history, especially world history. So I ask this with respect. Why the jump from "we have human trafficking and abuse happens even today. Just imagine what was going on back then" to "we do know. It's why Hitler happened" I'm not following that jump, & I want to understand, or maybe clarify some things. Evil done to the man in this story doesn't have a through line to Adolph Hitler And his disgusting buddies. And while he was a sick piece of excrement, I wonder if people just think the world was fine, then something happened that resulted in everything happening in Germany that led to what this man did in Germany and Austria and Poland, etc . I remember from way back as a kid, my Dad cautiously telling me that everything cost *insane* amounts of money. The inflation was staggering. AH somehow improved that, and Germany had their butts handed to them in WWI, so sadly, they were easier pickings. To balance the horrible things I learned very young, I chose to read about the most heroic people during that dark, terrible time. I read "The Hiding Place",and Corrie Ten Boom became one of my first heroes - she & her family had agreed that as Christians, and very incredible people, that they would help the Jews. In any way they could. And they all ended up in the very real concentration camps. Corrie survived because of a mix -up in paperwork. She later in life met a former SS officer who had (something horrible my mind doesn't want to remember) at the "camp""where Corrie watched her precious sister die. She forgave him. See why she's my hero? I hate the people who killed my friends. I live in Oklahoma City, and I can't even say the name of the POS who killed 168 innocent, decent people, almost every child in the daycare. There are terribly evil people everywhere. Murdering at least 6,000,000 Jews? That's so evil we need a new word. But he's not even the worst. Lenin & Stalin killed even more people. We don't "get hitler" because of any one reason. a lot of things happened that allowed a monster to do terrible things. Champ Prill, maybe you can connect your comment to the one by @makerstudios. I just don't see this sad young man's story being "why we got hitler". I feel like the atrocities committed in Germany, Austria, Poland... they aren't being remembered completely, which is very scary. I'm disabled. That means I would have been in a CC, or more likely just killed in a group of people like me, people who were slower to learn. All of my gay friends would be on the list for extinction. Many gypsies were also targeted and slaughtered. I don't agree that people used to be Evil, but we are mostly better than "back then". This person obviously could have gotten better care now. But this whole "it was worse back then"? I don't know why that would be true. And I definitely don't understand the Hitler line. We are so fortunate to not live under any of these men. I know I'm grateful every day.
@C c Sometimes I question if Hitler was the bad guy. I'm not kkk or hate on anyone but you never know. I am on the fence about a lot of history we are taught. Obviously Chris Columbus wasn't a hero but we grow up hearing it and have a day for him... Theres so much history that I personally don't know if its right or wrong.
There was actually a dna testing done in1996 I think that found that the royal family in question and Kaspar hauser have not relation to one another. So that theory is debunked. Pretty sure kaspar made it all up...
I lived in isolation for 2 years in my teens. Those two years were enough to give me pain in my feet and ankles. I was underweight, and didn't do much exercise. I'd get random sharp pains in my feet, heels and ankles. So, I think he could have been held in captivity for at least a year. Because he was a lot younger than I was, I don't think it would take 2 years to give him the foot pain I got. I think he probably already had psychological issues before he was taken - but being in isolation for long enough to get foot pains like that does a lot of mental damage. For one thing, it feels like an eternity. 2 years for me felt more like 5.
It sounds more like the evidence from the first test was inconclusive, probably because of either the age of the sample or the relative youth of DNA testing, or both.
I'm from Germany and I know this story, there is even a song about it that we sung 2 years ago in music class and then my teacher told us the story. And it is a sad story.
@@laerramarie2620 (Ich schreib einfach deutsch) Ist auch nicht mehr soo bekannt, wir hatten halt nen uralten Musiklehrer und bei dem haben wir das Lied gesungen und er hat uns die Geschichte erzählt. Sonst wüsste ich auch nichts davon
He's a son of a higher up and got abandoned cis of asburgers syndrome ( i have it and alot lines up with my symptoms) mabye did lie a bit Or mabye it wus him lying its not to hard to believe a "mystery boy pops up" and people used abused him to get money out of him like a freak show he trades hands nkt knowing whats going on and people make up stories on purposes and by mistake as the believe in the myth of him till they needed more money and killed him
He sounds like he was special needs. He probably had a laundry list of issues. He wasn't sure what was true. This may also explain the manipulative behavior.
Tbh i have two idea's A poor abused kid tbat the abuser used for money and shuffled around and the story got to big people who talked to the boy made up storied about him and when the king wus going to be invalid the abusers killed the boy 2 a bastard child with asburgers syndrome ( i have it and i cam see alot of things that point to it) since it wusn't unlikly to have a bastard child being treated nicly by the nobles since 1 there family 2 they can still be used and the father can still claim them as his if shit hits the fan but maybe they abanded him or he ran away So that would make since why he would have bad grammer, get sensory overload, and mabye lied and Finaly got killed cus if it came out he wis rolity or even a child of a noble by the king that would be huge problems so they offed him
It's funny, I'm living my whole live in Nuremberg, yet this is the best summary of the story I've ever seen. They should use the video in local history lessons :)
notsoseriousmoonlight ummm, guys, this was how people drew and painted during that time - so it’s not unusual. But very astute of you to notice - really :)
Both. He suffered from hyperacutia (extreme sensitivity to sound and light). That's consistent with early childhood-onset PTSD. He lied out of fear for his life. A fear that should have subsided as soon as he got taken proper care of, but when you have had PTSD since childhood, that fear never goes away. That makes for a strong cognitive dissonance that the kid resolved by becoming his own abuser. He'd rather keep suffering 'in the real' than 'in the mind'. He was a rich kid in the early 19th century. Rich parents could perpetrate the most sadistic forms of abuse on their children, as they were immune to public scrutiny.
He also had multiple sensory issues, a preoccupation with specific topics(the way all his sentences initially were about horses), and was still learning to speak. Taken as a whole, this screams 'autistic' to me. He was probably isolated/abused in the first place because his well-off family was embarrassed of him.
Considering our modern knowledge of the effects of severe child abuse, Caspars story ,while very tragic, makes more sense. Severe abuse frequently causes multiple personality disorder. This would account for his ' deceitful' nature, and everything else.
“The Unexplained.” Series of books my mom bought mid 80s, Kaspar’s story was one of the most prominent mysteries featured. You sir have reminded me of a very sunny time of a mostly clouded childhood.
Lymbe06- almost wondered if I had written your comment. I too had a very clouded childhood, one of the few happy memories of which was reading my books in a series called “The Unexplained” (I had two or three and I’m not sure whether there were others. It was probably not the same series as yours; there were so many of those things). This was forty years ago now, but I distinctly remember thinking the Bermuda Triangle stuff was silly even then (I must have been eight when I started reading them and kept reading them for a couple of years), finding the Amelia Earhart story fascinating and being sure I could solve the Judge Crater mystery-and another one about a famously disappearing debutante whose name I can’t recall-if the stories were not so obviously & frustratingly bowdlerized! Very good times. I wish you the best.
@@tanyawest2017 I want to say there were 7 or 8 books, a door to door salesman sold ot to my mum around mid 80s too lol. Also that the hard cover was black and that each page represented a different mystery, that's about all I recall. I wish you the best too Tanya, hope your days are better now:)
German Dna Tests of Caspers hair showed that he was 95 % related to Grand duke Karl von Baden and his wife a french princess related to Josefine of France.
Legitimate heir to the throne. If he had been locked away for years he would have been quirky & psychologically disturbed - which would explain the weird behaviour.
People who are seriously abused either lash out at others or turn pain twords themselves. They also disassociate or possibly have multiple personalities.
I don't know. All I can tell you is that the rulers we call Karl in German are always translated to Charles. And vise versa. Englisch and french Kings named Charles we call Karl.
@@DieEchteHolzpfanne jup, its a common thing for names to be adopted to their origin language, most notably with people who were monarchs who mattered. Then there is the issue that many of these royals also use latinized names of themselves, which of course Charles would be similar to.
@@MrPbhuh yes overall I understand the practice. Just find it odd that often, as the example I gave before, Ludwig is not translated into Louis in englisch or Wilhelm to William. On the other hand in german we call Louis the 14th, Ludwig.
It happened in my family, although we are not royalty. We are of German descent, we think, although the family came from Kosalin, now in Poland but then in East Prussia. Family first names were Wilhelm and Ludvig, changed to William and Louis once they reached the US and continued on in middle names through generations.
First DNA test was actually blood from his murderer, second test was his actual blood. Or h was just an abused kid who learned he would only get attention by lying and hurting himself
The Count of St. Germain is another good one of these kinds of stories. He was this guy in the 1700s that randomly entered the French noble social circles with no one knowing where he came from or who he was. He was incredibly talented at music, language etc. and people who knew him claimed that he never aged and was immortal, appearing again after his “apparent” original death. It’s quite the rabbit hole. Aside from the supernatural rumours around him, a lot of historians think he may have been an exiled Prince.
Personally my theory on the Count of St. Germain is that he was a Savoyard noble based on an account of the languages he spoke and his mastery of various skills. According to what I found he was said to speak French with a Piedmontese accent. Now accents are picked up as a child and they can indicate where a person grew up. The theory of the count being a Transylvanian prince says that he was raised in Tuscany. But for that to be true he would speak Italian with a Tuscan accent not French with a Piedmontese accent. Plus Piedmont was part of the domain of the House of Savoy before it became a part of a unified Italy so it stands to reason that the count spent his childhood in Savoy. As to him being a nobleman during the Age of Enlightenment it was considered very respectful for a noble person to cultivate skills in various fields including the composing of music. The Chevalier Saint Georges, who was the illegitimate son of a French nobleman, made his mark as a composer and the count is connected with several pieces of music said to have been composed by him.
I live in Ansbach. I really didn‘t know this is a story that people know that don‘t live here, because some people that live here don‘t even know about it.
"It's almost like he'd been locked away in a dark room his whole life" - almost?... Can't walk or talk. eats bread and water. sensitive to light. keen hearing and eyesight. proof: found wearing an embroidered hankerchief with the initials KH on it. KH was his captor. KH obviously had wealth which would transfer to power in those times. This remained a mystery everyone knew the truth to.
@@mattmroz2182 that's my theory. He could have been royalty, but done the injuries himself. What I'm wondering, is the physical proximity of the royal estate to the location described in the death note. His knowledge of things pertaining to nobility is both intriguing, and easy to believe, depending on when he expressed the knowledge: if it was before he lived with the wealthy caretaker, that says something, but he may have learned things through observation, and they said he had superior hearing. How he folded things could have been something he picked up from his captor. An assassin or henchman hired by nobility wouldn't have cut him across his forehead, the pistol incident sounds like a suicide attempt. His skill in deceit could have been a means of survival if he was in captivity.
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He was smiling through his own personal hell Dropped his last dime in a wishing well But he was hoping to close and then he fell Now he's Casper the Friendly Ghost He was always polite to the people who'd tell him That he was nothing but a lazy bum, but Goodbye to them he had to go Now he's Casper the Friendly Ghost Nobody treated him nice while he was alive You can't buy no respect like the librarian said, but Everybody respects the dead, they Love a friendly ghost And now they say we'll never forget what he learned As we were mean to him but he never burned Just singing, "love lives forever!" Thank you, Casper the Friendly Ghost
Man I gotta say I appreciate the way you ask people to subscribe. I spend a pretty good amount of time on TH-cam and I can't stand the first mintue to two minutes of most videos because they are all about getting people to like and subscribe. You do it right my friend and I appreciate that. Also I love you content lol.
I don't know why people ask for likes/subscribe BEFORE you see the video (almost as if they don't care what you actually think of it). Joe is genuinely interesting, so he doesn't need to do that.
Scott literally talks about how it could be both these options and that yes they aren't mutually exclusive. Also he never said these are the only two options either so...
Actually its a thirteen ghost thg, but in parts,its a big K that purposely made bouncers and such,like the people in circus's with whips cruelly making someone or something mean,make himself mean from a taunting,it happens to many of us,like sports and competing,insults of pious arrogance,so let's all just puke,and hugs to all
Most reasonable comment here. Why does everyone need everyone else to have autism? It's bizarre. People suddenly getting dx'd in their 50s, why? What does it change?
It's actually legit though, no one knows what country he's from, how old he is exactly, or where he got all the money he uses to fund his productions and like live on since he doesn't seem to have a day job.
The fact that Kaspar lied a lot Isn’t that surprising. My adopted daughter who had a terrible start in life and then spent a few years in a Russian orphanage, also lied a lot. In fact, my Dad once said that she lies when the truth would serve her better.
It would be interesting if the could do a comparison test of the DNA against a DNA database like "Ancestry" to find cousins and try to figure out most likely parents.
German scientists have already did DNA tests on Kaspars hair sample which was owned by someone in Germany . They took a lock of Kaspars hair when he died and they still had it today. The DNA tests showed that Kaspar was 95% related to the Grand Duke Charles of Baden and his wife a French princess related to Josephine of France.
@@ivia_ol8356 When Kaspar was well known in Europe in the 1800s Josephine of France ,Napolean''s wife, wanted to meet him and was very interested in Kaspar for some reason. Its probably because her niece was Kaspar's mother. Josephine's niece married Charles or Karl the Grand Duke of Baden.
I grew up with this story as well! I have it in 2 different books that I’ve had since I was very young. I’m very happy that you covered this topic! Thanks!!
That would be easy, just claim to be the zodiac killer or someone other whos identity isnt known. You just have to be the right age and convincing enough that 1 person truly believes you and they feel like their about to became famous. People believe anything told with a straight face. 🤔😰
I think he was abused and kept in a small enclosure because he wasn't "perfect" or "normal" and then was somehow let go. PTSD possibly or some sort of dislike for himself ingrained in him from the abusers that made him harm himself.
Being locked up and abused from birth would have made him have a tenuous grip on reality. He wasn't so much a liar as a person living in a fantasy world trying to get attention and sympathy. But how did he escape from his captors/ or was he just let go?
Interesting video, as always. I actually completely relate to the boy being able to hear whispers from across the room, see well in the dark, and have extreme light sensitivity. I am on the spectrum and have a diagnosed sensory disorder that manifests with the same differences. I'm curious if he was also particularly hypersensitive to smell and touch too. Maybe that's why he wore a silk scarf, because it was all he was able to tolerate on his neck. Guess we'll never know.
Ah... the ever-present "look at me" comment. Ok, your comment has been read, everyone thinks you're very cool (or deep, or whatever it is you're going for) because you say you're "on the spectrum", and anyone who reads your comment (and/or my response to it) will forget all about it within 90 seconds of reading it. All better? Did you get your needed allotment of undeserved and unearned attention?
@@theworstdadjoke6518 Maybe Nick needs a hug? Not from us, but just in general. For real though, I like your name and think it's cool you related the same way I did. ☺️
DID...? Like me🤷🏼♀️ Would fit... Especially the thing with the black room, the seeing in the dark, the attack by an ominous perpetrator (which then could be an internalised alter-ego)... and so on... DID is a komplex Traumadisorder and stuff like that are typical for it and also explains his intelligence and ability to learn to akt normal...
Yes, I remember seeing that movie too, some time around the early 70's. I, too, found it interesting as well as intriguingly mysterious. He may well have been an imposter, but my guess is that he was (as some have already said here) autistic. I have a vague memory of the movie's music being a beautiful piece, and wish I could remember what it was.
We had a guy that came into the ER that had a light bulb up his ass,,,he said,, I fell off my ladder trying to putt a new bulb in,,,,he still lives True story
It's 2020 right now and we're in the middle of a pandemic, so that's why I'm here on this wonderful channel! So happy I stumbled on this! I think he was indeed a descendant of royal blood, but was innately a menace.
About 12 years ago, in the dark basement of a thrift store, I was lucky enough to find a 1926 1st English Edition of Wassermann's "Caspar Hauser". I had already seen Herzog's film, which I saw under the title "Every Man For Himself and God Against All", so I was familiar with the story. I read the $5 hardcover then turned around and sold it for $80. Good deal! 😁
haha for real. Imagine if he was mentally tortured by some creep back then who always kept him blindfolded and unable to move. And only fed him bread and water. Then one day drugged him and set him free somewhere near the city. It would be a dark experiment of Plato's cave.
@@Michael-cg4un are you sure the 9th dimension? I heard he lived in a parallel split between the 10th and the 9th? I think you're right though it's def one of the 2.
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Poor kid was cursed by blood. Treated like a stain and held as long as he was small. he had no knowledge of his royal lineage and zero social skills. The young man existed in survival mode his entire life. Rest in Peace, Kasper, your fight is long over.
1:45 - That doesn't make sense. If he thought his reflection was another person, why did he try to catch it? Did he try to catch everyone else he came across? 🤨 Sounds like a case of someone pretending to have a problem and acting it out based on what he _thinks_ it would be like. We've seen plenty of examples of this sort of thing before, like people pretending to be blind or deaf based on how they think blind or deaf people act. Seems more suspicious than mysterious. 🤔
That’s how some little children act when they first see a mirror. Try to touch the other person who is mimicking their movement and then it slow dawning on them that it isn’t a normal person.
Theyre instincts. Its obviously not a person since you recognize the surroundings of the person in the mirror as the surroundings opposite from the mirror, aka your own surroundings (and the fact you can look at yourself from toes to chest so really only your face is unknown) That doesnt make it any less interesting and trying to touch or grab it would prove if it is infact another individual or not. Cats hiss at their own reflection and sometimes attack it but when the instincts wear off it becomes obvious that its not an actual being besides an image, it doesnt produce sounds and there is no reaction.
Why not both? That's very interesting. If you grew up like that, wouldn't you be a little messed up? Thank Joe, we're taking care of those ridiculous "First, derp derp" comments. Who am I kidding? They'll still show up. *sigh*
Well if it’s true he had very good dark vision and could hear the most remote sounds says and couldn’t handle the sun while such as blinding light and burning easily says something wasn’t right. Either genetics issue or he was in a remote place with no light as described. But also someone like that wouldn’t have grown right mentally when ppl are solitary confinement to long they can get brain damage how long is to long depends on the person. Now in a study on a few gorillas taken as baby’s and held in isolation well when they did go back to their normal population they wanted to always be alone on top of a few other very odd behaviors.
@@treymiller5736 I agree, blind people can hear more than people that see because they improve their sense of sound, so if he was kept in the dark, maybe he improved his sense of sound.
Crafting and Gaming Zone well sound is gonna have to make up for lost eye sight in many cases as they actively listen/feel rather then mindlessly listen. Not your held in a dark room with little sound and also trying to pull in as much detail about where your at for years.
I think I saw the same documentary. I heard it was true though and once they figured it out they gave him an Oscar. Poor Leo overlooked and mistreated for all those years.
I feel like you were always really good at school presentations and projects lol cause I feel like I’m in a class learning about the most random yet interesting information.
I've known the story of Kaspar for a long time, even though I had no idea there were so many other details about him, which I didn't know. But, what I remember from the first time I read the story, the boy never learned to speak as a normal adult. Which is at least one indicator of solitary confinement in his developing years. I opened the Wikipedia article out of curiosity now and I found this passage: "...he found rye bread and water next to his bed each morning. Periodically the water would taste bitter and drinking it would cause him to sleep more heavily than usual. On such occasions, when he awakened, his straw was changed and his hair and nails were cut." How plausible is it for a child from that era to come up with something like that? Let's not forget, there are several people who claim that his speech and his dictionary were not as developed as those of other boys his age. And at last, what's even most important, considering how the story about him spread like wildfire around Germany and abroad, if not his own parents, someone would've turned up to say that a boy fitting that description was missing from their town... I don't doubt that latter episodes of [possibly] self inflicted wounds could've been orchestrated by Kaspar himself as attention-seeking attempts, but that's not unheard of in neglected children. There's one other thing I haven't seen mentioned so far, and that's how confused he must've been, if what he said about the solitary confinement was true. The eyesight does not merely depend on optics, but demands a long process of learning and brain activity. While he was already able to recognize basic shapes, I wonder how much he would've been able to tell people apart and how all those faces among all those new shapes and colors would've seem... I can see how people, not understanding his condition, would've gotten frustrated with his mixed up stories and could've easily mistaken him for a liar.
I think there might be a royal connection in this goose-chase. The whole being in the dark, light sensitivity is the clue I'm picking up on. This is a symptom that is included with an illness called porphyria. So too would be the neuropathy (painful feet) & abdominal pain (his dislike of food) & psychiatric symptoms. It's a complex illness for diagnosis, including varied symptoms also present in other illnesses. As for the royalty, I first learned of the connection put forward about the UK's royal family. You can find a quick run down of some affected people on Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyria) in the category: Notable cases.
in german class we learned about a story of a guy that was held in a cave since his birth, only being fed bread and water. idk why but it kinda clicked for me
Symptoms like echolalia (repeating things after others), being fixed on one theme (horses), having problems with his senses, being "naughty" and having troubles with communication are a lot like symptomps of autism.
Thank you for reminding myself, also, of the subject of a book that I also had as a child. The truth of Kaspar's life always seemed just a little out of reach. I appreciate the time taken to investigate, produce & upload this vlog!!!
even after 2 centuries we are talking about him,if he was a attention seeker he achieved.
catchy watchy that’s attention seeking level God!
Ya him and Jesus ...just kidding...i believe in Jesus
He has ascended
Right? He got exactly what he wanted: Infamy.
😂😂😂
"I want to be a horsemen, like my father" thats the most NPC thing I've ever heard
😂😂😂
Mystery solved, he was an epic NPC maaaaan.
“I’m going to be a silversmith one day, like my mother and father!” -random child in Markarth, Skyrim
Turns out Joe forgot the second half of that quote.
It went: "Woooo!"
“I am a Horseman, like my father before me.”
he also could have had ptsd and tried to kill himself or hurt himself or had hallucinations that caused him to self-harm? also he might have been put in captivity only more recently and just didn't recall earlier memories where he wasn't tortured, which would explain his stunted but not completely destroyed mental state
I was thinking the same thing. He could have lied about a couple things but I see it as more of his way of a cry for help. Many people who self harm do it for another reason but some do it as a way to communicate their pain to others. Most people wouldn't believe that whats going on inside of them cannot be so painful so they resort to physical pain as "proof".
Or he could have developed dissociative identity disorder. That would also explain why he only remembers few things from his childhood. He could have been telling the truth. Many people with DID especially the alters, have pasts of their own, lives and memories completely different to other people in the "system".
But who knows
also possibly autistic with the sensory issues and limited verbal comunication
He was switched at birth with a bying baby. The person who was asked to murder the baby (Kaspar) laid his own dying baby into the crib of the King of Baden and took Kaspar in as his own. He introduced Kaspar to Stephanie as his own and wanted to give her comfort and let her hold her own son unknowingly of course otherwise he would have been in trouble for switching the babies. Kaspar later had memory flashbacks where he remembered his mother and the castle. He revealed those flashbacks to the spy who was monitoring him every day (a man from England he made friends with) and this man leaked all that information to those who wanted their males to get the throne and that's when they tried to assassinate Kaspar and then eventually they stabbed him to death when he was outside of the house to prevent him from further leaking out information and possibly taking the throne of Baden which was his legitimate inheritance.
@@nickidaisydandelion4044 nice theory mate
@@schwammi that was my first reaction too! i do think it's likely that he was on the spectrum alongside other things
Dude looks like he’s telling Shrek to do the roar
The Cheese do the roar
Ivanna V 😂
Real talk
Oh yes
Was just gonna comment this
According to one version of the story, when he first made his appearance in town, the bottoms of his feet were still rounded outward the way babies are before they learn to walk. If true, this is not something a deceitful individual could fake. The fact that he never developed a decent set of personal ethics is beside the point of whether he was confined as a child or was of royal lineage.
He wasn't a feral child, but he was developmentally disabled.
I think the kid probably was kidnapped/confined for some time and had PTSD that made him forget most of his life from before, _and_ he had munchausens he picked up after he received so much positive attention initially.
Hearing “under Daughmer’s care, he thrived” caught me so off guard for a second lmao I forgot the name of the guy who took him in
Happened to me, too. 😂
???
@@DevanK-rg3td the pronunciation is the same as Jeffrey Dahmer the serial killer and cannibal around the 1980s
@@emmapetzke5704 It is pronounced
and spelled DAUMER ( as in "HOW" )!
@@michaelsergejhelgesson1637 yeah Dahmer the serial killer and Daughmer the historical dude they refer to in the video
The story only gets stranger after he becomes the well known friendly ghost.
😂😂😂😂
Lmao
Illuminatus Pythagoras casper? Lol
😂😂
A forensic exhumation is required there.
It's quite possible Kaspar had autism from the knowledge you've mentioned in this video. A lot of the things you described him doing at the beginning of the video are some traits of autism, such as him having a limited diet, repeating people's words a lot and him very sensitive to light and sound. Quite possibly he had another mental illness as well.
That makes sense
I agree
As an autistic person there’s a definite possibility he was on the spectrum. How most of his repetitive statements centered around horsemanship could probably be a sign of a special interest.
It’s not really possible to diagnose people who have long since passed away. There may be interesting tie-ins here, but also, one size does not fit all with autism. Not everyone in our community is a picky eater, for example. Sensitivity to light and sound is present in many, but not this extreme.
Point being, the explanation is more than a little reductive - and it’s very difficult to know if the child actually would have had trouble socializing if he’d ever been socialized properly at all.
Those with autism have difficulty with that even under ordinary circumstances… pretty much any kid would go insane and be distrustful if they grew up locked in a dark box for ten years. The comparison is pretty unfair.
I have a child on the spectrum and I was thinking the same thing. Everyone who has it experiences it differently but there are some traits that are commonly seen in people who have it (picky eating, light sensitivity, etc). obviously we'll never know for sure but it's a possibility. Everyone has survival strategies and imagine what it would have been like to have it during that era... which is known for it's compassion towards things it didn't understand [hopefully obvious sarcasm] (which also might explain the being locked in a dark room part)
Maybe he was abused/neglected locked in a dark room by his parents/guardians. And as a result just went mad hallucinated people talking to him and trying to get him and hurt himself as part of it.
Perhaps when he hurt himself was the only time they took real care and gave him attention?
@@SLD1🎯🎯🎯🎯
So he’s an NPC? “I want to be a horseman like my father”
Katie Boler typicall NPC line
What’s NPC mean?
@@illnessshaw Non-playable character, they exist as objects in video games to interact with and repeat the script they were given
Only 11 years old and already knew he wanted to be a horseman of the apocalypse. life goals lol
Og Horsegirl
This young kids disoriented in the streets and they give him to a guy named daumer? Nnnooooooo
LOL
Yeah but in there defense he was known to be very charismatic.
that bothered me too, until I looked up Dahmer's spelling; still, names in Europe did change a bit when moving to US.
Anyone who's wondering, this is about Jeffery Dahmer, the serial killer.
All good!
That was legitimately funny
“Seeking attention” is a strange criticism. Every human needs attention. It sounds like while possibly being on the spectrum, he also had clear trauma and mental illness. And sadly it sounds like he struggled with suicidal urges which he tried to hide
Agree. You just described some of the symptoms of borderline personality disorder, so maybe that was a possibility.
No, humans seek affection, not attention. Attention and affection aren't the same thing. Attention seeking is an unhealthy and vapid behavior that goes beyond our normal social needs for belonging and affection.
Not true. Kaspar was the heir of the throne.
No it isn't. He more than likely hurt himself to get attention from people
@@ChrissieBear you trying to sound like you know anything about psychology is the most "vapid behavior" I'm seeing right now.
We know that human trafficking and abuse happens even today. Just imagine what was going on back then.
I think of that now and then and the thought is disturbing to say the least
Adam Hitze I always loved listening to my older relatives telling their most ‘weird’ life stories! As a young child I was obsessed with cultural history. This world has changed beyond imagination in such a short period of time...changed for the better!! Civilisation (for the vast majority of ‘working class’ (normal) people) really hasn’t been around for very long.
My father is a World War II scholar and University professor. It always bothered me, having to look at all the books, many with Adolph's ugly mug on the covers.
I think there's a disconnect with people who don't marinate in history, especially world history. So I ask this with respect. Why the jump from "we have human trafficking and abuse happens even today. Just imagine what was going on back then" to "we do know. It's why Hitler happened"
I'm not following that jump, & I want to understand, or maybe clarify some things. Evil done to the man in this story doesn't have a through line to Adolph Hitler And his disgusting buddies. And while he was a sick piece of excrement, I wonder if people just think the world was fine, then something happened that resulted in everything happening in Germany that led to what this man did in Germany and Austria and Poland, etc . I remember from way back as a kid, my Dad cautiously telling me that everything cost *insane* amounts of money. The inflation was staggering. AH somehow improved that, and Germany had their butts handed to them in WWI, so sadly, they were easier pickings.
To balance the horrible things I learned very young, I chose to read about the most heroic people during that dark, terrible time. I read "The Hiding Place",and Corrie Ten Boom became one of my first heroes - she & her family had agreed that as Christians, and very incredible people, that they would help the Jews. In any way they could. And they all ended up in the very real concentration camps. Corrie survived because of a mix -up in paperwork. She later in life met a former SS officer who had (something horrible my mind doesn't want to remember) at the "camp""where Corrie watched her precious sister die.
She forgave him.
See why she's my hero? I hate the people who killed my friends. I live in Oklahoma City, and I can't even say the name of the POS who killed 168 innocent, decent people, almost every child in the daycare.
There are terribly evil people everywhere. Murdering at least 6,000,000 Jews? That's so evil we need a new word. But he's not even the worst. Lenin & Stalin killed even more people.
We don't "get hitler" because of any one reason. a lot of things happened that allowed a monster to do terrible things.
Champ Prill, maybe you can connect your comment to the one by @makerstudios. I just don't see this sad young man's story being "why we got hitler".
I feel like the atrocities committed in Germany, Austria, Poland... they aren't being remembered completely, which is very scary. I'm disabled. That means I would have been in a CC, or more likely just killed in a group of people like me, people who were slower to learn. All of my gay friends would be on the list for extinction. Many gypsies were also targeted and slaughtered.
I don't agree that people used to be Evil, but we are mostly better than "back then".
This person obviously could have gotten better care now. But this whole "it was worse back then"? I don't know why that would be true. And I definitely don't understand the Hitler line. We are so fortunate to not live under any of these men. I know I'm grateful every day.
@C c Sometimes I question if Hitler was the bad guy. I'm not kkk or hate on anyone but you never know. I am on the fence about a lot of history we are taught. Obviously Chris Columbus wasn't a hero but we grow up hearing it and have a day for him... Theres so much history that I personally don't know if its right or wrong.
Reasd stories about stolen Africans by colonizers.
I’m going to agree with someone else’s “autistic royal” theory
simply because he had a nice scarf?
There was actually a dna testing done in1996 I think that found that the royal family in question and Kaspar hauser have not relation to one another. So that theory is debunked. Pretty sure kaspar made it all up...
the 'a' and 'e' in your name are misplaced
@@naomiooo6062 well not entirely if the last DNA test is actually his we could have a big answer to the kid
@Wade both lol
I lived in isolation for 2 years in my teens. Those two years were enough to give me pain in my feet and ankles. I was underweight, and didn't do much exercise. I'd get random sharp pains in my feet, heels and ankles.
So, I think he could have been held in captivity for at least a year. Because he was a lot younger than I was, I don't think it would take 2 years to give him the foot pain I got. I think he probably already had psychological issues before he was taken - but being in isolation for long enough to get foot pains like that does a lot of mental damage. For one thing, it feels like an eternity. 2 years for me felt more like 5.
Why were you in isolation?
I'm sorry for your story, but thank you for sharing it
If only a mitochondrial dna test proved royal ancestry, this likely means he was born out of wedlock between a royal mother and a common father
Skylar Jon “noble”
It sounds more like the evidence from the first test was inconclusive, probably because of either the age of the sample or the relative youth of DNA testing, or both.
He’s not royal
By common father you mean the head chef, lol.
Metochonderial DNA does not change much since its produced separately and from the mother only. Therefore 95% Match is actually not very good match
The absence of drums in the beginning is surprisingly unnerving. There's a glitch in the matrix
:O had to check OOF
Oh I thought he had just oiled the chair mechanism
It’s really freaking me out
Celine Hatting - I didn’t notice until I read your comment. The drum beat is now playing in my head as I make this comment.
Celine Hatting - I think it now sounds better with a Guitar and drums in the background.
I'm from Germany and I know this story, there is even a song about it that we sung 2 years ago in music class and then my teacher told us the story. And it is a sad story.
Can you tell me the name of the song? 🙂
@@myeramimclerie7869 "Kaspar Hauser". It was sung by Reinhard Mey
Lmao I never ever heard of him (I am from Germany too)
@@laerramarie2620 (Ich schreib einfach deutsch) Ist auch nicht mehr soo bekannt, wir hatten halt nen uralten Musiklehrer und bei dem haben wir das Lied gesungen und er hat uns die Geschichte erzählt. Sonst wüsste ich auch nichts davon
@@missxy8217 Dankee =)
I really can't believe that all coming from lies. He probably just lied as a defense mechanism, from a twisted life
You're the type of naive person that allows compulsive liars/confidence trickster to operate.
Mag Nificent now why you gotta say that?
@@Mr.Obongo been hurt by a compulsive liar. probably.
He could see things in dark makes me feel like he was really locked in a dark room to be hidden for whatever reason it maybe.
He's a son of a higher up and got abandoned cis of asburgers syndrome ( i have it and alot lines up with my symptoms) mabye did lie a bit
Or mabye it wus him lying its not to hard to believe a "mystery boy pops up" and people used abused him to get money out of him like a freak show he trades hands nkt knowing whats going on and people make up stories on purposes and by mistake as the believe in the myth of him till they needed more money and killed him
That t-shirt is distracting me the whole video.
Same buddy
Yes
Me too lol
Same. It also made me want jawbreaker candy.
Right! I want one
He sounds like he was special needs. He probably had a laundry list of issues. He wasn't sure what was true. This may also explain the manipulative behavior.
He was a pathological liar 🤥 all his story was invented by himself
Yeah he definitely sounds special needs. First couple minutes reminded me of autism
"Crazy, attention-seeking liar, or legitimate heir to the throne" 🤔 Have they ever been mutually exclusive?
Tbh i have two idea's
A poor abused kid tbat the abuser used for money and shuffled around and the story got to big people who talked to the boy made up storied about him and when the king wus going to be invalid the abusers killed the boy
2 a bastard child with asburgers syndrome ( i have it and i cam see alot of things that point to it) since it wusn't unlikly to have a bastard child being treated nicly by the nobles since 1 there family 2 they can still be used and the father can still claim them as his if shit hits the fan but maybe they abanded him or he ran away
So that would make since why he would have bad grammer, get sensory overload, and mabye lied and Finaly got killed cus if it came out he wis rolity or even a child of a noble by the king that would be huge problems so they offed him
Yes
It's funny, I'm living my whole live in Nuremberg, yet this is the best summary of the story I've ever seen. They should use the video in local history lessons :)
Thank you but somehow I doubt that. :)
Didn't this kid drawing look like that book of ?? Drawing nobody knew wtf it was
@@Blessd-savingrace Voynich Manuscript? Yeah, I can see it.
Yes the V manuscript
notsoseriousmoonlight ummm, guys, this was how people drew and painted during that time - so it’s not unusual.
But very astute of you to notice - really :)
Both. He suffered from hyperacutia (extreme sensitivity to sound and light). That's consistent with early childhood-onset PTSD.
He lied out of fear for his life. A fear that should have subsided as soon as he got taken proper care of, but when you have had PTSD since childhood, that fear never goes away. That makes for a strong cognitive dissonance that the kid resolved by becoming his own abuser. He'd rather keep suffering 'in the real' than 'in the mind'. He was a rich kid in the early 19th century. Rich parents could perpetrate the most sadistic forms of abuse on their children, as they were immune to public scrutiny.
No one:
Tekashi69: I know who he was
bruhhhh😂😂😂😂😂
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Right!?!
Best damn joke I've heard all year😁
Hmmm?¿?
Who Is tekashi your gf or something
So if he walked like a toddler and had pain in walking, this is a child who was raised in isolation.
@@metavision8292 you arent kidding! My lord..I think Im in love with the CNA!
LMFAO 😂 yeaaa! I'm more interested in the gorgeous CNA!!
He also had multiple sensory issues, a preoccupation with specific topics(the way all his sentences initially were about horses), and was still learning to speak. Taken as a whole, this screams 'autistic' to me. He was probably isolated/abused in the first place because his well-off family was embarrassed of him.
@@sprouting_lady Yesss thank you, I had the same idea. Glad to see I'm not alone in my conclusion
Or a child who was born with a condition or deformity
Considering our modern knowledge of the effects of severe child abuse, Caspars story ,while very tragic, makes more sense. Severe abuse frequently causes multiple personality disorder. This would account for his ' deceitful' nature, and everything else.
“The Unexplained.” Series of books my mom bought mid 80s, Kaspar’s story was one of the most prominent mysteries featured. You sir have reminded me of a very sunny time of a mostly clouded childhood.
Lymbe06- almost wondered if I had written your comment. I too had a very clouded childhood, one of the few happy memories of which was reading my books in a series called “The Unexplained” (I had two or three and I’m not sure whether there were others. It was probably not the same series as yours; there were so many of those things). This was forty years ago now, but I distinctly remember thinking the Bermuda Triangle stuff was silly even then (I must have been eight when I started reading them and kept reading them for a couple of years), finding the Amelia Earhart story fascinating and being sure I could solve the Judge Crater mystery-and another one about a famously disappearing debutante whose name I can’t recall-if the stories were not so obviously & frustratingly bowdlerized! Very good times. I wish you the best.
@@tanyawest2017 I want to say there were 7 or 8 books, a door to door salesman sold ot to my mum around mid 80s too lol. Also that the hard cover was black and that each page represented a different mystery, that's about all I recall.
I wish you the best too Tanya, hope your days are better now:)
German Dna Tests of Caspers hair showed that he was 95 % related to Grand duke Karl von Baden and his wife a french princess related to Josefine of France.
Lol nice username
Actually another DNA test contradicted this. So it is still unproved.
They just did another one contradicting both past DNA tests
A year later the plot still thickens
@@Shrubchucker There is an even more recent test that both confirms and invalidates all previous tests, don't ask me how I know this.
Joe: "Who was this kid's father?"
My first thought: "Clearly some descendant of Bojack Horseman, but proceed."
Legitimate heir to the throne. If he had been locked away for years he would have been quirky & psychologically disturbed - which would explain the weird behaviour.
More people are fixated on the mystery of the missing drums than the mystery of the kid in the video.
Yes
Which drums?
I rewinded the video to check if it was a problem with my computer
Imagine the public outcry if he changes his beard style abruptly.
Nope.
People who are seriously abused either lash out at others or turn pain twords themselves.
They also disassociate or possibly have multiple personalities.
Why is Karl always translated to Charles but Ludwig never changed to Louis. I find that odd...
What? I never heard that Karl is being translated that way, how did that happen?
I don't know. All I can tell you is that the rulers we call Karl in German are always translated to Charles. And vise versa. Englisch and french Kings named Charles we call Karl.
@@DieEchteHolzpfanne jup, its a common thing for names to be adopted to their origin language, most notably with people who were monarchs who mattered.
Then there is the issue that many of these royals also use latinized names of themselves, which of course Charles would be similar to.
@@MrPbhuh yes overall I understand the practice. Just find it odd that often, as the example I gave before, Ludwig is not translated into Louis in englisch or Wilhelm to William. On the other hand in german we call Louis the 14th, Ludwig.
It happened in my family, although we are not royalty. We are of German descent, we think, although the family came from Kosalin, now in Poland but then in East Prussia. Family first names were Wilhelm and Ludvig, changed to William and Louis once they reached the US and continued on in middle names through generations.
First DNA test was actually blood from his murderer, second test was his actual blood. Or h was just an abused kid who learned he would only get attention by lying and hurting himself
The Count of St. Germain is another good one of these kinds of stories. He was this guy in the 1700s that randomly entered the French noble social circles with no one knowing where he came from or who he was. He was incredibly talented at music, language etc. and people who knew him claimed that he never aged and was immortal, appearing again after his “apparent” original death. It’s quite the rabbit hole. Aside from the supernatural rumours around him, a lot of historians think he may have been an exiled Prince.
I’m getting Count of Monte Crisco and Dorian Grey out of that. Interesting.
Personally my theory on the Count of St. Germain is that he was a Savoyard noble based on an account of the languages he spoke and his mastery of various skills. According to what I found he was said to speak French with a Piedmontese accent. Now accents are picked up as a child and they can indicate where a person grew up. The theory of the count being a Transylvanian prince says that he was raised in Tuscany. But for that to be true he would speak Italian with a Tuscan accent not French with a Piedmontese accent. Plus Piedmont was part of the domain of the House of Savoy before it became a part of a unified Italy so it stands to reason that the count spent his childhood in Savoy. As to him being a nobleman during the Age of Enlightenment it was considered very respectful for a noble person to cultivate skills in various fields including the composing of music. The Chevalier Saint Georges, who was the illegitimate son of a French nobleman, made his mark as a composer and the count is connected with several pieces of music said to have been composed by him.
Dude i agree, im always fascinated by the character of the Count of St. Germain and would love to see a video going deep on that rabbit hole
Today I learned that St. Germain from the Castlevania show was based on a real person 😯
I live in Ansbach. I really didn‘t know this is a story that people know that don‘t live here, because some people that live here don‘t even know about it.
Did you remove the drum riff for extra creepies?
Is that all it takes?
There is likely a higher amount of autism amongst your followers, so yes.... 😲😃
@@joescott it might be worth having a whole episode on this subject, or maybe not.
He probably does support vaccines
"It's almost like he'd been locked away in a dark room his whole life" - almost?... Can't walk or talk. eats bread and water. sensitive to light. keen hearing and eyesight. proof: found wearing an embroidered hankerchief with the initials KH on it. KH was his captor. KH obviously had wealth which would transfer to power in those times. This remained a mystery everyone knew the truth to.
Did you even watch the video? It's impossible for someone to survive like that, he would of died
@@iaincowell9747 it's not impossible, a few children have been found in these conditions, and as expected, had severe physical and mental problems
I think Kaspar Hauser was both a disposed royal child, and an attention seeking liar.
A literal drama queen. But male.
Stocks and bonds,deputy dog
It's entirely possible
This is also known as survival mode.
@@mattmroz2182 that's my theory. He could have been royalty, but done the injuries himself. What I'm wondering, is the physical proximity of the royal estate to the location described in the death note. His knowledge of things pertaining to nobility is both intriguing, and easy to believe, depending on when he expressed the knowledge: if it was before he lived with the wealthy caretaker, that says something, but he may have learned things through observation, and they said he had superior hearing. How he folded things could have been something he picked up from his captor. An assassin or henchman hired by nobility wouldn't have cut him across his forehead, the pistol incident sounds like a suicide attempt. His skill in deceit could have been a means of survival if he was in captivity.
Deceitful, Schemer, and a liar…… Sounds like royalty to me
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Nobody:
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Everybody: We're gonna comment though
Memes are immortal
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@@saintfiniusofthehills971 my mother was a paintbrush
@@adamhitze2180 paint thinner was it???? Dear dear😂😂😂
Aw poor Casper :( it's really sad story him being found at only 10 or 11, i can't imagine what he went through! I don't care if he lied
He was smiling through his own personal hell
Dropped his last dime in a wishing well
But he was hoping to close and then he fell
Now he's Casper the Friendly Ghost
He was always polite to the people who'd tell him
That he was nothing but a lazy bum, but
Goodbye to them he had to go
Now he's Casper the Friendly Ghost
Nobody treated him nice while he was alive
You can't buy no respect like the librarian said, but
Everybody respects the dead, they
Love a friendly ghost
And now they say we'll never forget what he learned
As we were mean to him but he never burned
Just singing, "love lives forever!"
Thank you, Casper the Friendly Ghost
The ad i had for this video was the OG "slap chop" commercial with vince 😍 amazing. What a gem. Can believe someone is paying for it still lol
Man I gotta say I appreciate the way you ask people to subscribe. I spend a pretty good amount of time on TH-cam and I can't stand the first mintue to two minutes of most videos because they are all about getting people to like and subscribe. You do it right my friend and I appreciate that. Also I love you content lol.
I don't know why people ask for likes/subscribe BEFORE you see the video (almost as if they don't care what you actually think of it). Joe is genuinely interesting, so he doesn't need to do that.
He’s either a liar or royalty?
When did the two become exclusive?
Jay Orzecki Right? Pretty stupid to say those are the only options, when literally nobody knows anything.
ROTFLMFAO!!
Does this mean... I'M ROYALTY! :-O
Scott literally talks about how it could be both these options and that yes they aren't mutually exclusive. Also he never said these are the only two options either so...
The presenter said "Or both." so he did not imply they are mutually exclusive.
Name: Kaspar Hauser
Hobby: Getting Stabbed
Actually its a thirteen ghost thg, but in parts,its a big K that purposely made bouncers and such,like the people in circus's with whips cruelly making someone or something mean,make himself mean from a taunting,it happens to many of us,like sports and competing,insults of pious arrogance,so let's all just puke,and hugs to all
Sounds like a character taken straight out of a Charles Dickens story.
Lit!👍
Good one!!
Indeed. I thought asylum born to nutty noble - then i thought maybe they just kicked him out
Smikes from Nicolas Nickelby.
timeline would be about right, early to mid 19th century!
You should make a video on the green children. That's a pretty good mysterious story!
Yesss, I was thinking that thru this whole video!
*There's a song about him by Reinhard Mey!!* (It's just called "Kaspar"- you can look it up on TH-cam.)
This is the boy from Two and a half men.
Boris, spot on!
Haha mystery solved!!!
Greatest comment ever!
Most reasonable comment here. Why does everyone need everyone else to have autism? It's bizarre. People suddenly getting dx'd in their 50s, why? What does it change?
😂😂😂😂
Tommy Wiseau - That’s brilliant 🤣🤣.
That is also true
Plot twist: Wiseau is Kaspar Hauser's direct descendant.
@@Bacopa68 which means he is royalty
It's actually legit though, no one knows what country he's from, how old he is exactly, or where he got all the money he uses to fund his productions and like live on since he doesn't seem to have a day job.
"You're paring me a tart, Lisa!"
That's how that goes, right? I've never seen the movie.
I would suggest looking into Reactive Attachment Disorder. It would explain his behaviors.
i thought that was the kid from shrek 4 that wouldnt stop saying "do the roar" for a moment
It is,saw him at a renisannce fair
The fact that Kaspar lied a lot Isn’t that surprising. My adopted daughter who had a terrible start in life and then spent a few years in a Russian orphanage, also lied a lot. In fact, my Dad once said that she lies when the truth would serve her better.
I've always wanted to adopt. Are you happy being a father to your daughter? Just curious. 😊
Tommy Wiseau 😂
you're tearing me apart Joe
It would be interesting if the could do a comparison test of the DNA against a DNA database like "Ancestry" to find cousins and try to figure out most likely parents.
German scientists have already did DNA tests on Kaspars hair sample which was owned by someone in Germany . They took a lock of Kaspars hair when he died and they still had it today. The DNA tests showed that Kaspar was 95% related to the Grand Duke Charles of Baden and his wife a French princess related to Josephine of France.
This is Kaspar Hauser's father
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Grand_Duke_of_Baden
@@rbeck3200tb40 Wow I'm gonna try find out more about that. Can you provide link that prove your statement please?
@@ivia_ol8356
When Kaspar was well known in Europe in the 1800s Josephine of France ,Napolean''s wife, wanted to meet him and was very interested in Kaspar for some reason. Its probably because her niece was Kaspar's mother. Josephine's niece married Charles or Karl the Grand Duke of Baden.
@@ivia_ol8356
Hers a link of some information
www.lifedeathprizes.com/spooky-stuff/was-kaspar-hauser-really-a-grand-duke-or-was-he-a-fraud-71311
Where's the drums at the beginning?
I know right!
I hid them away in a small dark room and only fed them bread and water.
@@joescott no
@@joescott That's not very nice.
Sounds like a Democrat
I grew up with this story as well! I have it in 2 different books that I’ve had since I was very young. I’m very happy that you covered this topic! Thanks!!
When you lie so much someone publishes a book about u
The Art of the Deal
That would be easy, just claim to be the zodiac killer or someone other whos identity isnt known. You just have to be the right age and convincing enough that 1 person truly believes you and they feel like their about to became famous. People believe anything told with a straight face. 🤔😰
There are plenty of publications about Trump.
Drag Gon Lmaooo I- 🤧
Bible?
He was abused, neglected and rejected as a child. Then once on his own a liar.
I think he was abused and kept in a small enclosure because he wasn't "perfect" or "normal" and then was somehow let go. PTSD possibly or some sort of dislike for himself ingrained in him from the abusers that made him harm himself.
Being locked up and abused from birth would have made him have a tenuous grip on reality. He wasn't so much a liar as a person living in a fantasy world trying to get attention and sympathy. But how did he escape from his captors/ or was he just let go?
Peter Michael
Interesting how statement B doesn’t make you rethink the veracity of statement A. Because it most definitely should.
"This is why people are still talking about him 200 years later."
Never heard of him prior to this video.
Your talking about him now lol
"People" does not equal all people. People have been talking about him for 200 years, just apparntly no one you know
He is very famous in Germany, here you learn in school about him
@@126Edward really? I go to school in Germany and never heard of him
@@ritakunz6135 ich auch nicht
Interesting video, as always. I actually completely relate to the boy being able to hear whispers from across the room, see well in the dark, and have extreme light sensitivity. I am on the spectrum and have a diagnosed sensory disorder that manifests with the same differences. I'm curious if he was also particularly hypersensitive to smell and touch too. Maybe that's why he wore a silk scarf, because it was all he was able to tolerate on his neck.
Guess we'll never know.
Ah... the ever-present "look at me" comment. Ok, your comment has been read, everyone thinks you're very cool (or deep, or whatever it is you're going for) because you say you're "on the spectrum", and anyone who reads your comment (and/or my response to it) will forget all about it within 90 seconds of reading it. All better? Did you get your needed allotment of undeserved and unearned attention?
@@theworstdadjoke6518 Maybe Nick needs a hug? Not from us, but just in general.
For real though, I like your name and think it's cool you related the same way I did. ☺️
Nice comment. Thanks.
Or neither.
He could be just suffering from a severe mental illness, causing his reality to warp.
DID...? Like me🤷🏼♀️
Would fit...
Especially the thing with the black room, the seeing in the dark, the attack by an ominous perpetrator (which then could be an internalised alter-ego)... and so on...
DID is a komplex Traumadisorder and stuff like that are typical for it and also explains his intelligence and ability to learn to akt normal...
Werner Herzog made a movie called in English, “ The Enigma of Kasper Hauser”. Interesting story.
; Are you a tree-frog?
Yes, I remember seeing that movie too, some time around the early 70's. I, too, found it interesting as well as intriguingly mysterious.
He may well have been an imposter, but my guess is that he was (as some have already said here) autistic.
I have a vague memory of the movie's music being a beautiful piece, and wish I could remember what it was.
We had a guy that came into the ER that had a light bulb up his ass,,,he said,, I fell off my ladder trying to putt a new bulb in,,,,he still lives
True story
It's 2020 right now and we're in the middle of a pandemic, so that's why I'm here on this wonderful channel! So happy I stumbled on this! I think he was indeed a descendant of royal blood, but was innately a menace.
Hi, I'm from Ansbach, story of my hometown. We used to hang out at the Kaspar Hauser memorial in Ansbach as teenagers
A mysterious and sad story at the same time.
About 12 years ago, in the dark basement of a thrift store, I was lucky enough to find a 1926 1st English Edition of Wassermann's "Caspar Hauser". I had already seen Herzog's film, which I saw under the title "Every Man For Himself and God Against All", so I was familiar with the story.
I read the $5 hardcover then turned around and sold it for $80. Good deal! 😁
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69% WhErE Are My DruMs 🥁?
It was discombobulating
Joe Scott can’t wait ;)
"69% WhErE Are My DruMs *drum emoji*?"
...nice
Nice
and, as always, one person commenting on what's being commented.
People who lived in that time frame were hardly adept at mental illness and child abuse..No telling what the truth really is/was🙄
Child abuse and SRA goes back to the Old Testament. And "there is nothing new under the sun"..........to this very day.
This was very detailed and informative. thx for making it, sir!
Or he just had a mental illness from being locked away.
haha for real. Imagine if he was mentally tortured by some creep back then who always kept him blindfolded and unable to move. And only fed him bread and water. Then one day drugged him and set him free somewhere near the city. It would be a dark experiment of Plato's cave.
Of course. But time travelling alien child warping to earth from ninth dimension is much more interesting
But he could've been a standard psychopath manipulating them all
@@Michael-cg4un are you sure the 9th dimension? I heard he lived in a parallel split between the 10th and the 9th? I think you're right though it's def one of the 2.
Clifford Moen what about the 50th dimension
"A period of european history many scholars call a clusterfck" - literal rofl's
I talked to many prominent scholars about that.
@@joescott it's your insatiable, uncompromising pursuit of the facts that keeps me coming back Joe haha :)
Yeah, credibility was lost. I laughed too, not to floor level though.
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I love his tshirt with the world on,wonder where he got it
Truly fascinating, but the bigger mystery is:
Is that an André the Giant action figure behind you?
HAHAHAHAHA Yes it Is, it's Fezzik. i Like, OLE!
@@fvrrljr "Inconceivable!!!"
"You keep saying that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means"
@@4wardnthought234 LOL, OLE is a Spanish bullfighting word, Flamenco, approval, exclamation. I come from a real rich background. Made in Texas Born in Mexico!
Maternal Grandmother Apache, Maternal Grandfather Tehran who has roots in Spain in the Basque region. Paternal Grandmother French, Paternal Grandfather Mongolian. in Oaxaca Mexico Zapoteca Indians are Mongolians descendants. "i Like, OLE!" is my trademark when I like something. I agreed with your post. Fezzik is a character that Andre The Giant played in The Princess Bride. I recommend it if you've never watched it along with your nephews, nieces etc. They'll all like Fezzik. so for approval I'll "Take My Leave" after: Simon, Orale, ÑO, Arriba Arriba, Yee Ha!, Ay Ya Yay Ya YAY!, Adios Muchachas, last and not least "i Like, OLE!" HAHAHAHAHA you have watched The Princess Bride LMAO you got me "Inconceivable!!!" Lifts Beer with a Salute you got me "touche!"
@@fvrrljr ??
I wasn't talking about OLÉ. I was quoting fezzik in Princess Bride
@@4wardnthought234 but it was Vizzini who said Inconceivable. either way you got me because you did see the movie Thumbs Up!
I remember learning about this kid in class, I have autism and I went to special classes. We even learned the history of our disorders
Poor kid was cursed by blood. Treated like a stain and held as long as he was small. he had no knowledge of his royal lineage and zero social skills. The young man existed in survival mode his entire life. Rest in Peace, Kasper, your fight is long over.
Perfect video to watch during a hurricane.
Jason Theobald hope you’re ok
like wise I am watching this during the hurricane.
Lost power for a little bit. Nothing serious. The Bahamas I'm worried about for reals.
1:45 - That doesn't make sense. If he thought his reflection was another person, why did he try to catch it? Did he try to catch everyone else he came across? 🤨 Sounds like a case of someone pretending to have a problem and acting it out based on what he _thinks_ it would be like. We've seen plenty of examples of this sort of thing before, like people pretending to be blind or deaf based on how they think blind or deaf people act. Seems more suspicious than mysterious. 🤔
That’s how some little children act when they first see a mirror. Try to touch the other person who is mimicking their movement and then it slow dawning on them that it isn’t a normal person.
Theyre instincts.
Its obviously not a person since you recognize the surroundings of the person in the mirror as the surroundings opposite from the mirror, aka your own surroundings (and the fact you can look at yourself from toes to chest so really only your face is unknown)
That doesnt make it any less interesting and trying to touch or grab it would prove if it is infact another individual or not.
Cats hiss at their own reflection and sometimes attack it but when the instincts wear off it becomes obvious that its not an actual being besides an image, it doesnt produce sounds and there is no reaction.
@@samanjj exactly. Watch my 11 month old. He's enamoured with his reflection and tries to touch it and laughs and play with it trying to figure it out
I love that for Napoleon the picture is from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure rather than an actual portrait like the others.
Why not both? That's very interesting. If you grew up like that, wouldn't you be a little messed up?
Thank Joe, we're taking care of those ridiculous "First, derp derp" comments.
Who am I kidding? They'll still show up. *sigh*
Yeah I think both. Not first lol.
Well if it’s true he had very good dark vision and could hear the most remote sounds says and couldn’t handle the sun while such as blinding light and burning easily says something wasn’t right. Either genetics issue or he was in a remote place with no light as described. But also someone like that wouldn’t have grown right mentally when ppl are solitary confinement to long they can get brain damage how long is to long depends on the person. Now in a study on a few gorillas taken as baby’s and held in isolation well when they did go back to their normal population they wanted to always be alone on top of a few other very odd behaviors.
@@treymiller5736 I agree, blind people can hear more than people that see because they improve their sense of sound, so if he was kept in the dark, maybe he improved his sense of sound.
It's aliens...
Crafting and Gaming Zone well sound is gonna have to make up for lost eye sight in many cases as they actively listen/feel rather then mindlessly listen. Not your held in a dark room with little sound and also trying to pull in as much detail about where your at for years.
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Last documentary I saw tells me it's world famous Actor Leonard Di capario but I have my doubts.
I think I saw the same documentary. I heard it was true though and once they figured it out they gave him an Oscar. Poor Leo overlooked and mistreated for all those years.
"ah peri-ohd known in history by scho-lahrs as .... a cluster***." LOL!!
I can almost hear him say "do the roar"
When i heard Herzog movie and Kasper Hauser in the same sentence i had to google.... thanks for the movie recommendation :)
It. Is. The best.
I feel like you were always really good at school presentations and projects lol cause I feel like I’m in a class learning about the most random yet interesting information.
"[they] did DNA testing on the underwear he was wearing when he was murdered... it was kind of a bummer" no pun intended?
I've known the story of Kaspar for a long time, even though I had no idea there were so many other details about him, which I didn't know. But, what I remember from the first time I read the story, the boy never learned to speak as a normal adult. Which is at least one indicator of solitary confinement in his developing years.
I opened the Wikipedia article out of curiosity now and I found this passage: "...he found rye bread and water next to his bed each morning. Periodically the water would taste bitter and drinking it would cause him to sleep more heavily than usual. On such occasions, when he awakened, his straw was changed and his hair and nails were cut." How plausible is it for a child from that era to come up with something like that? Let's not forget, there are several people who claim that his speech and his dictionary were not as developed as those of other boys his age.
And at last, what's even most important, considering how the story about him spread like wildfire around Germany and abroad, if not his own parents, someone would've turned up to say that a boy fitting that description was missing from their town...
I don't doubt that latter episodes of [possibly] self inflicted wounds could've been orchestrated by Kaspar himself as attention-seeking attempts, but that's not unheard of in neglected children. There's one other thing I haven't seen mentioned so far, and that's how confused he must've been, if what he said about the solitary confinement was true. The eyesight does not merely depend on optics, but demands a long process of learning and brain activity. While he was already able to recognize basic shapes, I wonder how much he would've been able to tell people apart and how all those faces among all those new shapes and colors would've seem... I can see how people, not understanding his condition, would've gotten frustrated with his mixed up stories and could've easily mistaken him for a liar.
You know shits serous when Joe doesn’t put the music at the beginning of his video.
I think there might be a royal connection in this goose-chase. The whole being in the dark, light sensitivity is the clue I'm picking up on. This is a symptom that is included with an illness called porphyria. So too would be the neuropathy (painful feet) & abdominal pain (his dislike of food) & psychiatric symptoms. It's a complex illness for diagnosis, including varied symptoms also present in other illnesses.
As for the royalty, I first learned of the connection put forward about the UK's royal family. You can find a quick run down of some affected people on Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyria) in the category: Notable cases.
in german class we learned about a story of a guy that was held in a cave since his birth, only being fed bread and water. idk why but it kinda clicked for me
Symptoms like echolalia (repeating things after others), being fixed on one theme (horses), having problems with his senses, being "naughty" and having troubles with communication are a lot like symptomps of autism.
It was the great grandfather of Steve jobs
“Where were you born?”
“Somewhere in the Ford Galaxy...”
-Lonestar
You can read it
No im just clearing my throat
OMG Joe lolololol! This is why your my favorite TouYuber. Excellent delivery and comedic timing! Educational plus enjoyable :) thx again
Thank you for reminding myself, also, of the subject of a book that I also had as a child. The truth of Kaspar's life always seemed just a little out of reach. I appreciate the time taken to investigate, produce & upload this vlog!!!