Is tartan from outer space?  The only evidence we found, apart from this cover to MacMurray's 1984 yearbook, is a reference to "kilts with otherworldly plaid designs" (by someone called Menace 3 Society).  Even merely two clues may form a pattern, and is this evidence of a cover-up of a checkered past?  

"The Lost City."  From Jugend, 1900.

We applaud the subtlety of the anthropomorphism in this piece.  From Memphis State's 1972 yearbook.

Bed-warming cats.  From Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats, Written Principally By a Lady of Ninety, 1923.

From Lustige Blätter, 1917.

J quips: "Spilled milk may be nothing to cry over...but spilled Chianti literally spells [a synonym for] disaster!"

Ghosts bring their own welcome mat.  From The Link, 1948.

From the University of California's 1922 yearbook.

From Jugend, 1916.

"I never answer the door because of the horrors that could lurk there" —John Darling, Woman in Black.  Our illustration is from Lustige Blätter, 1901.

"What has he done?  I cannot say.  We'll find out to-morrow, and beat him today."  A century later, this isn't a nonsense rhyme but the way our "justice" system works.  From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser, 1922.

From Jugend, 1912.

"Of two minds."  From Hilltop News, 1957.