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Fortnightly(ish) podcast delving into incredible, macabre and bizarre stories from historical newspapers. Violet and Jim are two amateur researchers based on opposite sides of the Atlantic,...
With crime-stopping old ladies, fortune-telling dogs and professional walkers-on-heads, it's all go in the first mini episode for 2019. Join...
"Born and brought up through childhood with wild animals for playmates", Frank C. Bostock was no ordinary child. From the age of 15, he beca...
In this episode of Yesterday's Chip Paper, join Violet and Jim and hear the story of the Bronco Bustin' Baronet, AKA Sir Genille Cave-Browne...
With ghosts solving their own murders, ghosts murdering innocent victims, and other stories that involve neither ghosts nor murder, things a...
This week, we check in with a man of many names who commits the most heinous of crime, then disappears...or does he? Plus, Jim reads a lette...
In the wilds of 1800s Scotland, one man stood alone against those who sought to subvert the law by smuggling and distilling their own, tax-f...
In this edition of Yesterday's Chip Paper Extra!, Jim and Violet explore desperate fights between boys and eagles, incompetent night watchme...
With the help of his gun "Old Kill-Devil", Sam Hildebrand became a figure revered by the entire state of Missouri, including the infamous Je...
George A. Witzhoff was born in Switzerland in the 1860s. Following the death of his father, he moved to the US to become proficient in the a...
Ida Lewis and Nancy Rose were two of a kind - women who tended lighthouses after their father and husband respectively could no longer enact...
Charles Parton was born around 1870 into a hard world. Raised in a public house owned by his pugilist father, his future would be no easier....
In this edition of Yesterday's Chip Paper Extra!, Violet and Jim read each other's stories from across the centuries, ranging from an unfort...
*There were more, but we liked this title. The Elliot family was one of the preeminent farming families of 1870s Chemung County, NY. Until,...
Scotland-born Samuel Bissett was a man of many talents; shoemaking, brokering and, more famously, making all sorts of animals do all sorts o...
In this episode of Yesterday's Chip Paper Extra! Violet and Jim read some stories for the first time, featuring a nonsense and angering ridd...
In honour of International Women's Day, Violet tells the story of Elizabeth Taylor (also known as Happy Ned) who spent most of her life dres...
Ernest William Welsh invented a lot of stuff. Maybe. Possibly. From creating instruments of death to starting feuds with fellow inventors, t...
1890s Indiana, a state in the midst of a boom. A character appears in the newspapers with a talent so strange he becomes a star. He went by...
In this episode of Yesterday's Chip Paper Extra! Violet and Jim read out stories from historical newspapers, covering topics ranging from so...
Sent packing by his mother with 7000 Francs to "have an adventure", Louis de Rougemont would not disappoint. But his fantastical story soon...
One of Hull's most revered fighters both in and out of the ring, Albert Shakesby was the last person you'd want to get on the wrong side of....
Honey, fascists and the death of Santa Claus - just some of the topics covered in this special Christmas edition of Yesterday's Chip Paper E...
In this edition of Yesterday's Chip Paper Extra! We read to each other about incompetent police, errant livestock, insanity-inspired murders...
Anton Probst was a carpenter's son from (probably) Wiesbaden, Germany. After being deservedly dumped by his betrothed, he embarked upon a cr...
When a war munitions broker is shot on the steps of his front porch, it causes chaos in the affluent area of Hyde Park, Chicago. For over th...
A man hires a ghost to kill his wife, a hanging hand haunts a thriving hotel, and a shrunken head is causing trouble from a ping pong box. I...
Should man mate with apes? How do you survive a bear attack? And what exactly is dibbling a man's clay? All of these questions are answered...
In episode 24, Jim covers the story of Jane Cakebread, a woman once known internationally and now almost completely forgotten. Jane was a li...
"Atlanta woman announced her marriage, went to New York to buy her trousseau, and came home with unknown corpse." - The Vicksburg Herald, 14...
Euphrasie Mercier and her siblings were set for life, until a revolution left them penniless. Years of trying to make ends meet, spells in a...
Described as a "vulgar, industrious, shrewd" character worthy of Charles Dickens or Chris Reade, this is the story of, arguably, the most br...
A handsome young couple go to an island off the coast of Ireland to paint, bathe and...murder? In episode 20 of Yesterday's Chip Paper, Jim...
Just before midnight on the 14th of April 1912, the RMS Titanic, branded "unsinkable" by the White Star Line, struck an iceberg on its maide...
In this episode, Jim goes a little off piste and takes liberties with what is and isn't a newspaper, but nonetheless unearths squalid storie...
Ingenious inventor or crackpot fraud? This is the question on everyone's mind with this edition of Yesterday's Chip Paper. When an English i...
On episode 16 of Yesterday's Chip Paper, Jim regales Violet with the terrible tale of Alexander Pearce, an Irishman sentenced to transportat...
Morritt was one of the most famous magicians of his time, Monson was a notorious criminal let off scot-free. What could possibly go wrong wh...
One balmy, Charleston night in May of 1862, an act of such bravery was carried out that it would turn the perpetrator into a propaganda sens...
In 1932, an Englishman, an Australian and an American walk into a house in Florida. One of them wouldn't leave alive. This is the story of E...
This is the story of Giovanni Succi, once the most famous name in Paris completely forgotten today. Succi was a hunger artist, a name given...
In the basement kitchen of the Department of Agriculture, 12 young men sat down to a meal laced with poison, an event that would occur three...
This week Jim unravels the true story of the criminal who inspired Charles Dickens' Fagin. Ikey Solomon was a notorious criminal of the earl...
It's witchcraft and murder in small town America in this episode of Yesterday's Chip Paper. In 1928, 60-year-old Nelson Rehmeyer is beaten t...
In this episode of the Yesterday's Chip Paper podcast, Jim tells the story of a mystery that swept the nation, as wealthy socialite Violet G...
After several random attacks, there's a manhunt in Yorkshire for the Halifax Slasher. The whole town's in turmoil, people stay indoors and l...
Captain Stewart saw mutiny in a dream. This is the unreal story of what happened next, except it's oh so very real. Jim and Violet are in th...
Violet covers the unbelievable story of the six youthful desperadoes and the Thanksgiving Day riot at Folsom Prison in 1927. Meanwhile, Jim...
This week, Jim goes back to 1726 and finds one of the most unbelievably messed-up stories published in any newspaper ever. Meanwhile, Violet...
For this election special, Jim and Violet uncover political scandals, lonely prime ministers and rarely-read poetry from Ronald Reagan. Brit...
In this Halloween special, Jim and Violet find some horrifying true stories in the historic newspapers, including the three spinster sisters...