Our custom Uncanny Detector app overheated after identifying six ghosts and otherworldly entities dancing in this photo.  Can you spot six or more anomalies?  From Butler's 1971 yearbook.

We thought at first glance a petite sheet ghost was dancing above a shindig.  Then we realized it wasn't a sheet ghost, but that didn't help our understanding.  From Stephen F. Austin's 1957 yearbook.

"Or shall truer songs stir us and this time pass away?"  From West Georgia's 1973 yearbook.

Sheet ghosts abhor cutesy tooth fairy costumes.  From Anderson's 1989 yearbook.

What's he reading?  It's a book of cartoons, Group Therapy by Lou Myers.  From National-Louis' 1968 yearbook.

From the gloomy side to the sunny side, in the University of Michigan's 1910 yearbook.

You'd think he was playing Dracula in a theatrical production, but given the occult nature of college yearbooks, we've learned to make no assumptions.  From Lambuth 's 1983 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Yep, some years are like that.  From York's 1959 yearbook.

From Washington State's 1922 yearbook.

For years we've documented folks disguised as Christmas trees, but this one is more properly "Disguised as a Christmas tree ornament."  From Morris Harvey's 1970 yearbook.

It's been said that sports hooliganism comes down to a fear of death and that "fan riots are sparked by terrible insights that the Grim Reaper is winning" (Mary Pilon).  Here's Dr. Death on the field, from Birmingham-Southern's 1982 yearbook.

A sentiment from an administrator we will never forget: "We are all different, but we all have the same heart." 

The administrator pictured here (we don't know his particular pet slogan) is from the 1986 Ole Miss yearbook.

Perhaps this puts a lump in your throat, too.  Usually, one finds musical birds on the lines of a music staff, as if they're perching on telephone wires.  But here's what happened to the birds.  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1915 yearbook.

One of the many hats we wear while writing our unadulterated lameness (in honor of Teresa).  From Susquehanna's 1906 yearbook.

Reblog if you're backward, too.  From Anderson's 1915 yearbook.

Here's a precursor to the film Repo Man.  (I do wonder if that tree is still glowing.  Probably so.)  From Bryan's 1982 yearbook.

Learning perhaps ought to quit sleeping and snoring so as to grasp how to properly pluralize "library."  From National-Louis' 1969 yearbook.

The clarinet isn't all wop wop shoo be do be do be do be do be do be bop bam bam do wop pop blam.  From Washington College's 1971 yearbook.

Faced with a camera they don't say "Cheese" but rather "Zzzz's" -- the worshippers of Morpheus.  From Anderson's 1915 yearbook.

Here's a precursor to the projections of John Waters, "the pope of trash."  It's the debri[s]-o-scope.  From Purdue's 1908 yearbook.