Purr Lantern

Purr Lantern is a documentary storytelling channel devoted to 
forgotten American cat stories from regional newspaper archives, 
1960–1985.

Every story is sourced from documented reports — small-town papers, 
local journalism, archival photographs from a time most people 
remember but most stories don't. The 
library cat who outlived three librarians. The stray who walked 
into a Wisconsin dairy and stayed thirteen years. Stories that 
lived for one Tuesday on page eight, then disappeared.

We bring them back.

Each episode is researched from primary sources and illustrated 
in hand-drawn watercolor. Stories are narrated by voice — my 
editorial voice shapes every word; the narration itself is 
voice-generated. Where archival photographs and footage exist, 
they appear in the video. Sources are listed in every description.

We are not a rescue channel. We are not fiction. We are a small 
editorial project lighting a lantern over forgotten paws.

— Hollis
Editor, Purr Lantern