May 26, 2021

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

44 minutes

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

01:26 - Kaspar Hauser - Appearance in Nuremberg on May 26, 1828

05:28 - Kaspar's tale

08:09 - Never a Dull Moment - assassination attempts, falsehoods and Kaspar's strange end

14:53 - A Moving Target - theories & suppositions, the feral child

19:43 - Victor of Aveyron & Jean Marc Gaspard Itard

24:28 - Homo Ferus - The noble savage, Carl Linnaeus & the Tower of Babel

28:27 - The 12 Calamities - Frederick II's cruel experiments, organic failure to thrive

31:56 - The Forbidden Experiment & the Dumb House - Experiments by James IV of Scotland, Psamtik I & Akbar the Great

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

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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