If people tossed lightning, deadly poison, and silence at me, I'd probably look that way, too.  Wait -- I already do look that way.  From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Handbook.

Only three names are mentioned in the caption -- a blatant example of how ghosts are considered non-entities in our culture.  From the University of Toledo's 1951 yearbook.

From Dark Shadows episode 15.

Here's a rare two-humped sheet ghost from Goshen College's 1986 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.

From Chatterbox, 1880.

From Der Bärenspiegel, 1939.

"Personally I am always conscious of the latent power of the human spirit ad of the direct intervention into human life of outside forces which mold and modify our actions."  Illustration by C. B. Falls.  From "Stranger Than Fiction" by Arthur Conan Doyle, in Collier's, 1915.

It might be the ghost of a room, if only rooms had ghosts.  From Dark Shadows episode 1976.

From Popular Mechanics, 1942.

When a ghost says you're entitled to $100,000 (nearly three million in today's dollars).  From Ade's Fables by George Ade, 1914.

From Scribner's 1871.

Here's a better scan of this precursor to Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (1963), fromFrom Poets' Wit and Humor by Wh. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860. Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.

"Death caused by vaccination."  From How to Live 100 Years by Guy Lockwood, 1912.

May you hereby be free of ghasts or anything otherwise ghastly.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.

From The Cosmic Survey, 1922.

From Beyond Fantasy Fiction, 1954.

From Wizardry Monsters Manual.