In 1828, a teenage boy stumbled into Nuremberg Germany.

He was pale and his eyes were raw and unaccustomed to light.

As for his feet, they're immaculate looking like they'd never been walked on before.

When the citizens of Nuremberg finally managed to communicate with him, they were stunned

by his story.

He'd been locked inside a dark room for 16 years by a man whose face he never saw, and

then one day he was just released.

The town was frantic with questions.

Who was this boy?

Where did he come from?

And why as it soon became clear was somebody desperately trying to kill him.

This is supernatural, a podcast original.

I'm your host Ashley Flowers.

Every Wednesday I'll be taking a deep dive into a real unexplained mystery to try and

figure out the truth.

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This week's episode is about Casper Hauser, a boy who claimed he had been imprisoned

his entire life for no apparent reason.

When Casper told the citizens of Nuremberg his story, it set off a city-wide obsession

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