Share Kasper Hauser was a boy who spent his life trapped in a cramp dungeon, subsisting on bread and water and sleeping on a bed made of straw. At age 16, a mystery person handed Hauser two letters and dropped him off in Nuremberg, Germany. Well…maybe. For 200 years, historians, scientists, and armchair detectives have tried to solve the baffling mystery of Kasper Hauser. In the April 1887 issue of Popular Science, M. G. Valbert wrote “The History of a Delusion,” a comprehensive overview of everything that humanity knew—and didn’t…
