"The death-candle, the apparition, the ghost, formed so many articles of her creed, and she was not altogether without faith in the doctrine, that, by certain ceremonies and incantations, man may project his power into the sphere of the invisible world, and affect the movements and the thoughts of spirits."  From Sir Cosmo Digby by James Augustus St. John, 1843.

A ruler-like spirit board spells out messages from the great beyond.  From Popular Mechanics, 1920.

The earth visits a spiritualistic medium, from Cartoons Magazine, 1920.  This should be of interest: Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

From the Book of Heavenly Teachings by R. P. Baugh, 1912.

A sheet ghost "advising him how to invest his money."  From Pearson's, 1908.  This should be of interest: Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

"Seeing things."  From Pearson's, 1908.  This should be of interest: Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

"The faces made me shiver."  From English Illustrated, 1907.

"'There's no such thing as ghosts!' he cried."  From Harper's magazine, 1917.

The legs of the spirit table are are dressed differently (and only one is a peg leg).  "Spirit-levelling extraordinary!"  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1876.  This should be of interest: The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.

A ghost from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1876.

A Ouija board works best when the earth is flat.  We find our proof in "The Ouija Board" in The Essential Daryl Hine.  For other long-forgotten facts about Ouija boards, see The Care and Feeding of a Spirit Board.

Here's a ghost of pepper (presumably a relative of Pepper's Ghost) from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1876.

Here's a precursor to Twitter bots.  Voices from the Void: Six Years' Experience in Automatic Communications by Hester Travers Smith, 1919.

Spiritualism lampooned: "This is the portrait of a gentleman who communed with the spirits in a raw state," plus what the gentleman saw.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1872.

A lampoon of spiritualist seances -- "the Psychic Force, unseen," from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1872.  This should be of interest: Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

Here's a postcard written by a ghost, on October 27, 1909.  The message reads, "Dear friend.  It has been a long time since I saw or heard from any of you.  Do you recognize any-one on other side.  Love to all, Ida."  This has long been a problem — those in the land of the living often have trouble discerning those who have departed to the other side.

A ghostly sighting from 1899, from the National Archives U.K.

"What a simple matter this thing of communicating with the spirits has turned out to be."  An illustration by M. L. Blumenthal for The Saturday Evening Post, 1920.  This should be of interest: The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.