No one spoke as the lanterns floated into the sky.  From Lustige Blätter, 1918.

"The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter... the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever." —Fritz Leiber (via 1five1two)

More glowing trees, part of the eerie forest that spreads through all vintage yearbooks.  From Berea's 1958 yearbook.

Do not be drawn into the belfry if you use this photograph to facilitate astral travel.  From Salve Regina's 1981 yearbook.

"A view from within."  William Blake, in "Jerusalem," said that in our bosoms we bear our Heaven and Earth, and though all we behold appears "without," it is "within."  

This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel.  From the Delta State yearbook of 1995.

Sometimes ghostly orbs are mistaken for snowflakes.  Just as we are all snowflakes, no two orbs identical.  From Sweet Briar's 2007 yearbook.

From Purdue's 1916 yearbook.

This photograph may be used to facilitate astral journeys. From Memphis State's 1980 yearbook.

This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel. From Toronto's yearbook, 1957.

"The spectre of the catacomb" from The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1876.

This photograph may be used to facilitate either time travel or out-of-body journeying. From the Evansville yearbook of 1982.

Memories of college.  From East Carolina's 1960 yearbook.

This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel. From Monmouth's 1962 yearbook.

By Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, in Forum, 1914.

Memories of college.  From St. Andrews' 1976 yearbook.

From the University of California's 1922 yearbook.

This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel or astral travel to a refuge from the darkness. From the High Point yearbook of 1956.

This haunted photo appears in the University of Rhode Island's yearbook of 1997.  Why are orbs so ghostly?  We explored the answer in the context of this other ghostly photo.

"You may curse every step of the way.  My star."  From the University of the South's 1963 yearbook.