Confirmed: the secret of perpetual youth is a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey.  From Illinois Benedictine's 1984 yearbook.

Transparency is one of the first things we look for in a ghost. From Emerson's 1972 yearbook.

Reblog if you ride a modern broomstick.  From Municipal University of Omaha's 1960 yearbook.

Without special glasses, the only way to see the world like this is to "start changing the way you look at life, from your heart's point of view" (Women of Wisdom Spoken Word).

From Eastern Kentucky's 1979 yearbook.

From North Carolina College for Women's 1988 yearbook.

"Sentinel pines marshalling the magic way to fairyland."  This photo may indeed be used to facilitate journeys into the otherworld.  From the University of Wisconsin's 1914 yearbook.

We have this painting in our house, too.  No matter where you stand, its eyes seem to penetrate your soul.  From Florida Southern's 1952 yearbook.

With the full moon and the lamp post as coordinates, this photograph may be used as a tool for facilitating time travel.  From the University of Washington's 1923 yearbook.

"Leaves a part of himself here."  From Presbyterian College's 1973 yearbook.

One of the many tools we use in our research.  From Yeshiva's 1979 yearbook.

Ten years before the Pac-Man arcade game was developed, here's one of the ghosts.  From Morris Harvey's 1969 yearbook.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to move through the four-part series. From Duke's 1973 yearbook.

Merryland turns out to be in Maryland.  From The Maryland Horse, 1971.

The blowing-snow effect in this photo, coupled with the curvature at the top, hints of a scene within a "snow globe."  From Seton Hall's 1926 yearbook.

From Tulane's 1973 yearbook.

Wish more of our own photos came out this way.  From Duke's 1976 yearbook.

The perspective, to our eye, makes the tree appear super-flat.  Plus, doesn't this photo seem older than 1976?  From Duke's 1976 yearbook.

I always flunk quizzes like this -- I invariably think it's two faces, but it's nearly always a vase.  Something about "negative capability" ... or was that another class? 

From the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg's 1973 yearbook.