They don't write dialogue like they did in the good ol' days.  From The Black Cat, 1919.

From Carleton's 1967 yearbook.

If you have trouble telling football players from footballs, here's why.  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1909 yearbook.

From Science Wonder Quarterly, 1929.

From Nebelspalter, 1891.

From Spellbound, 1977.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)

From La Lune Rousse, 1877.

"The Sickle of Leo, from which come the Leonids, gleams like a great question-mark in the sky.  The answer— But God knows what the answer to anything is.  Perhaps it is that the stars are very close indeed."
—Charles Fort, New Lands

From The Film Daily, 1943.

From Unknown, 1939.

We thought this was a common greeting, but maybe it's just us, based on how broken-down we look: "In the name of God, what have you been doing to yourself?"  From Collier's, 1915.

Before you look at the caption, can you guess his profession?  From Harper's, 1879.

For fear of a caretaker pulling back the ivy and showing us our own tombstone again, we visit cemeteries only when nobody's around.  From Together, 1957.

Don't miss our video about the three mystic tools we have on hand for any haunted cemetery.

From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.

From The Wizard of Oz, adapted by Oscar Weigle and illustrated by Robert Patterson.

"Behind the mirror" -- one of the few illustrations we've encountered that admits to being from the other side.  From Swarthmore's 1922 yearbook.

"Why, I thought you were a wagon … but where are your hortheth?"  From Star People by Katharine Fay Dewey, 1910.