"My own form, possessed by another spirit, approached the door."  From English Illustrated, 1907.

Here are looming viruses of the common cold, from a Dutch aspirin advertisement, date uncertain.

From "Dilapidations" by J. F. Sullivan, in Cassell's, 1890.

From Pearson's, 1911.

A ghost beating a carpet.  From Die Muskete, 1938.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.

Here's a bottle imp from an 1863 issue of Fun magazine.

Here we learn where a ghost's true reception chamber is, where a ghost draws its nectar, as well as why a sanitary engineer is your only exorcist: "There are many houses in Great Britain which have inherited evil reputations; there is a 'ghost's room,' or 'a ghost's corridor,' or 'a ghost's tower,' or 'a ghost's terrace.'  The true ghost's walk is, however, in the basement; amongst and through foetid drains and foul sewers, the ghost's reception-chambers are ancient cesspools, and the ghost's nectar is drawn from tainted wells and neglected water cicterns.  There are British ghosts; but there are also continental ghosts, if possible, more terrible: the chilling palaces of Italy, the gilded splendours of Paris, are alike ghost-haunted.  Your only exorcist is the sanitary engineer."  From All the Year Round, 1861.

"'There's no such thing as ghosts!' he cried."  From Harper's magazine, 1917.

The legs of the spirit table are are dressed differently (and only one is a peg leg).  "Spirit-levelling extraordinary!"  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1876.  This should be of interest: The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.

"Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller."  A postcard by Arthur Thiele.

From Die Muskete, 1938.

Here are two ghostly photographs courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

A page from Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1948.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

This grim ghost is the "shadow of a shillelagh" (a thick stick of blackthorn or oak used in Ireland as a weapon).  From Fun magazine, 1886.

Here's a collection of Christmas ghosts, our favorite being the ghost of the picture gallery, at the center.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1884.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

"The end of all."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1876.

"A runaway knock at the haunted house."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1876.