An illustration from a 1916 issue of Green Book magazine.  The caption reads: "His fingers ran about the keyboard and seemed to meet her fingers there as before.  She was at his side, her hands crossing his, his fingers lingering on hers.  He turned to clasp her . . . but his arms found only emptiness."

An illustration from a 1914 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "There is something that lives on here, in this room."

An illustration from a 1917 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.

An illustration from an 1869 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "The wise man's home changed."

An illustration from an 1893 issue of Pall Mall magazine. 

"Who are you?":  an illustration from a 1913 issue of Munsey's magazine.

J writes: "Well, the answer that jumps to mind is 'Bob Hope.' Anachronistic, yes (I believe Leslie Hope would still have been, literally, in short pants in that decade, except when donning baggy pants for his award-winning Charlie Chaplin imitation); but if a ghost can't be exempt from strict chronological considerations, who can? I also, of course, love the fact that it's the *apparition* asking the *mortal* who the hell he is."

An illustration from a 1914 issue of Everybody's magazine.  The caption reads: "It had draped arms extended, with some cloth or band that looped and tightened at each stride."

An illustration from a 1902 issue of Everybody's magazine.

An illustration from a 1900 issue of Scribner's magazine.  The caption reads: "He heard their seductive voices.  They danced around him in numbers."

An illustration from a 1919 issue of Munsey's magazine.  The caption reads: "He saw a veritable cloud of evil creatures, swimming about like fish in dark waters."

An illustration from an 1879 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.

In the grand finale of Disneyland's famous Haunted Mansion, a ghost sits next to you.  Here's an illustration from an 1891 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "Haunted."

[This one's dedicated to our friend at Long-Forgotten, who ruminates fascinatingly on the eccentric masterpiece that is the Haunted Mansion.]

An illustration from an 1898 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "Innumerable spirits mobbed him."

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Life magazine.

An illustration from a 1920 issue of Munsey's magazine.

An illustration from a 1910 issue of Hampton's magazine.  The caption reads: "Marthe cried out that something was pulling her hair."

An illustration from a 1910 issue of Hampton's magazine.  The caption reads: "Under the influence of electricity, the columns were condensed miraculously into an intense image of Laurent."

"The Crystal": an illustration from a 1907 issue of English Illustrated magazine.

An illustration from an 1898 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "I was a great cloud anchored to my body."