Kaspar Hauser: The Boy, the Syndrome (The World Is Weird 5)

EPISODE 33 |  Kaspar Hauser:The Boy, The Syndrome (The World Is Weird 5)

193 years ago today, a boy stumbled into the Bavarian city of Nuremberg. He was carrying two letters, could barely speak and no one knew where he had come from. Speculations flew about the mysterious young man. Was he of royal blood? Had he been raised by wolves? And was he telling the truth when he said someone wanted to kill him?

The strange and enigmatic tale of Kaspar Hauser leads us to language deprivation experiments through the ages as well as the effects of neglect on children. The world is certainly weird.

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SECTIONS

1. 01:26 - Kaspar Hauser - Appearance in Nuremberg on May 26, 1828
2. 05:28 - Kaspar's tale
3. 08:09 - Never a Dull Moment -  assassination attempts, falsehoods and Kaspar's strange end
4. 14:53 - A Moving Target - theories & suppositions, the feral child
5. 19:43 - Victor of Aveyron & Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
6. 24:28 - Homo Ferus - The noble savage, Carl Linnaeus & the Tower of Babel
7. 28:27 - The 12 Calamities - Frederick II's cruel experiments, organic failure to thrive
8. 31:56 - The Forbidden Experiment & the Dumb House - Experiments by James IV of Scotland, Psamtik I & Akbar the Great
9. 34:49 - T'ee Inna Way - Effects of deprivation & neglect on language use: Isabel, Anna, Genie, Poto & Cabengo, d'Armond Speers speaks Klingon to his kid
10. 41:08 - Kaspar Hauser Syndrome (psychosocial short stature)

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More on this stuff

• The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser on LiveScience
• The Enduring 200-Year-Old Mystery Of Kaspar Hauser by Gina Dimuro
• Feral children in Encyclopedia Britannica
• Feral: The children raised by wolves on BBC Culture
• Wild Children on Myth & Moor
• The Feral Child: Blurring the Boundary between the Human and the Animal by Caitlin Schwarz
• Feral children through the ages by Lane Degregory
• The Child of Nature PhD thesis by Michael Newton
• Emperor Frankenstein article on Frederick II
• The Forbidden Experiment
• Akbar and the Silenced Children by Karl Steel
• From the Forbidden Experiment to Little Communities article on language deprivation experiments
• What Would Be Happen If a Child Is Not Exposed to Language? by Beste Gizem Cicioğlu
• Dugon, Haus You Dinikin, Du-Ah - The secrets of twin speak by Jon Lackman
• Poto And Cabengo: In The 1970s Grace and Virginia Kennedy Were Bigger Than The Loch Ness Monster on Flashbak
• d’Armond Speers: Dad Spoke Only Klingon To Son For Three Years by Bianca Bosker
• The Kaspar Hauser Syndrome of 'Psychosocial Dwarfism' in the The Journal of the American Medical Association

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