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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: Kaspar Hauser

Shattered Souls

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Kaspar's sudden appearance from nowhere in Nuremberg, Germany, touched off controversies that lasted for decades. Was he a child of royalty, stolen from the cradle and robbed of his birthright? Or a homeless kid who was kind of a con man?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Steve here. You are listening to one of our original 26 episodes. If you listen to any of our new episodes, you're gonna notice that we're sounding a little different in these ones.

0:11.0

Yeah, there's a reason for that. There is. They've been remastered. They have been remastered.

0:15.0

Because they had a really annoying hum.

0:17.0

Yeah, I mean, a huge thanks to listener James for doing almost all of the legwork on this thing.

0:23.0

You'll also notice if you had listened to what we're calling the last 26 episodes before, and you're re-listening now, the music and sound effects are gone.

0:32.0

Yes, we've gone back to straight audio. So, be warned. We sound a little different today than we do in what you're about to listen to.

0:39.0

Yeah. Bye.

0:40.0

Bye.

0:41.0

Thinking-side ways.

0:46.0

I don't know what you're saying.

0:48.0

Don't not go cute.

0:50.0

You never know.

0:51.0

Take the picture, take the photo, take the picture, smile.

0:54.0

What?

0:55.0

Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.

1:00.0

Well, hello. Welcome to the show, and tonight we're gonna talk about something extremely mysterious, something some of you may have heard about before, but probably not.

1:10.0

I'm Joe.

1:11.0

I'm Devon.

1:12.0

I'm Steve.

1:13.0

And this is Thinking-side ways.

1:14.0

Most of you have probably not heard of the mystery of Casper Hauser, which is something that actually occupied a good deal of Germany, even the rest of Europe in the 19th century.

1:24.0

So, let's start from the beginning.

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