You noticed him back there too, didn't you?  Eyes like laser beams, searing through the mists of time.  This cursed and haunted photograph defiles the Evansville's 1971 yearbook.

"The ghost."  From The Boys of Beechwood by Elizabeth Eiloart, 1868.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1936.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

"His eye rested on an object which terrified him."  From For Queen and King by Henry Frith, 1883.

You've heard of the horse whisperer.  Before that, there was the whispering horse [ghost].  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1909.

By Frederick Carter.  From Form Quarterly of the Arts, 1916.

From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.

From Les Hommes du Jour, 1911.

From Kladderadatsch, 1940.

These ghosts appear in Taylor University's Ilium yearbook of 1975.

Today we call them "paranormal investigators," "ghost hunters," or Ghostbusters, but in the early 1900s they were known as "ghost breakers."  Our image is from the title page to The Ghost Breaker by Charles Williams Goddard & Paul Dickey, 1915.