A ghost photo from Popular Mechanics, 1908.

"Letters from the dead."  From English Illustrated, 1907.

A planchette drawn by Harry Townsend for Hearst's International, 1922.  This should be of interest: The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.

How to turn a Ouija board into a "no-no" board.  From Harvard Lampoon, 1921.   See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.

"I noticed a light flashing from under his pen, a bright colored spark that became instantaneously a sound.  It was the small voice of the quill."  From Nightmare Tales by H. P. Blavatsky, 1907.

"Is the Ouija-board controlled subconsciously?"  From Popular Science Monthly, 1921.  This should be of interest: The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.

"A motley dance, college professors with gowns flying, psychologists with mortar-boards askew, hysterical women and gullible men, shifty palmists and thieving astrologists."  From Pearson's, 1908.

"A spook in church."  From Fun magazine, 1893.

"He violently shut down the self-raising lid and drew on the leather-covered top the sign of the six-pointed star, the sea of king Solomon," from Nightmare Tales by H. P. Blavatsky, 1907.

"The Mystic Soliman gives a private seance in a distinguished, English home. Soliman is today's most distinguished and talked about phenomenon. Soliman knows all, sees all and tells you everything."  Courtesy of the Nasjonalbiblioteket.  This should be of interest: Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

Did you know of Harvard's strict policy on Ouija-based cheating?  From The Harvard Lampoon, 1921.   See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.

"The haunts of ghosts," from The Windsor Magazine, 1901.

"She knew that horror, for she had been overtaken by it once before."  From English Illustrated, 1890.

"How the spirits untie Jacoby."  From Leaves from Conjurers' Scrap Books by Hardin J. Burlingame, 1891.  This should be of interest: Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

From The Harvard Lampoon, 1921.

"The death-candle, the apparition, the ghost, formed so many articles of her creed, and she was not altogether without faith in the doctrine, that, by certain ceremonies and incantations, man may project his power into the sphere of the invisible world, and affect the movements and the thoughts of spirits."  From Sir Cosmo Digby by James Augustus St. John, 1843.