KASPER HAUSER

On May 26,1828 a boy appeared in the streets of Nuremberg,Germany.He carried a letter with him which was addressed to a captain of 6th cavalry regiment.The boy was given into his custody,as an infant,on the 7th October 1812,and that he had never let him'Take a single step out of my house.'Now the boy would like to be a cavalryman,thus the captain would take him in or hang him.Hauser claimed that he had,for as long as he could think back,spent his life always totally alone in a darkened 1.5 metre cell(little more than the size of a one person bed in area)with only a straw bed to sleep on and a horse carved out of wood for a toy.Hauser claimed that the first human being he ever had contact with had been a mysterious man who had been a mysterious man who had visited him not long before his release,always taking great care not to reveal his face to him.According to contemporary rumours-probably current as early as 1829-Kasper Hauser was the hereditary prince of Barden that was born on September 29,1812 and had died within a month.It was claimed that this prince had been switched with the dying baby,and receiving a stab wound to the chest which was possible self-inflicted .He claimed he had been stabbed by the man who had kept him as an infant.In 2002,the university of Munster analyzed hair and body cells from locks of hair and items of clothing that were alleged to belong to Kasper Hauser.The DNA samples were compared to a DNA segment of Astrid Von Medinger,a descendant in the female line of Stephanie De Beauharnais ,who would have been Kasper Hauser's mother if indeed he had been the hereditary prince of Barden.The sequences were not identical but the deviation observed is not larger enough to exclude a relationship,as it could be cause by mutation.

KASPER HAUSER