have nothing more to go on than what he told us. We don't have any other clues as to his identity," Maa said. The Berlin police have appealed for help to all European countries via Interpol to see if any outstanding cases of missing persons might match the boy's description. They have not released a photograph of him at this stage. He is currently in the care of Berlin's youth services and they will decide what happens to him next if his identity is not established. The boy's story recalls European folk tales of feral or wolf children being brought up in the forest or in isolation. One real case was that of Kaspar Hauser, a teenage boy who appeared suddenly in Nuremberg in 1828, claiming to have been raised in a darkened cell without any human contact. It is also not the first time an English-speaking stranger has turned up in Germany . In 2006 an English-speaking man in his early 60s appeared in Mannheim train station saying that apart from his first name, Karl, he had no idea who he was or where he came from. The police concluded he was suffering from amnesia and while they never discovered his identity, they believed he was genuine. That was not the case, however, with the so-called piano man, who turned up on a beach in Kent in 2005, seemingly unable to speak and only capable of communicating by drawing and playing the piano. For months his true identity was