"Death is the victor."  From Lighted Pathway, 1973.

From Strangely Enough! by C. B. Colby.

She died of "overexercise in rubbing cocoa-butter on her neck."  From Peace Institute's 1903 yearbook.

Here's a precursor to those candles that smell like old books.  "Aroma de l'antique" and other scents of yore are actually excavated, as we learn in Wheaton College's 1921 yearbook.

The name Twoodeekederdinhezeedblebbo remains a Googlewhack to this day.  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1916 yearbook.

The grave of a doctor (er, disease manager) who accidentally took one of his poison prescriptions.  From the Medical College of Virginia's 1914 yearbook.

"Death caused by vaccination."  From How to Live 100 Years by Guy Lockwood, 1912.

Crossroads burials are traditionally chosen so as to confuse the troubled spirits of suicides, preventing them from finding their way home to haunt their relatives (John Stilhoe, Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845).

The headline reads, "Tombstone at the crossroads."  From The Martlet, 1968.

From the rare (over $900 on Amazon) Ghosts and Spirits of Many Lands by Freya Littledale and illustrated by Stefan Martin.

A gourd-headed grave-digger.  From Swarthmore's 1964 yearbook.

You've heard of putting a project "to rest," but Elon's 1925 yearbook was formally buried and given a tombstone.

A tombstone-worthy sentence diagram: "If an inscription be put upon my tomb, it may be this."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

From Wesleyan College's 1953 yearbook.

For a houseguest's third day, make place cards on the dinner table in the form of tombstones.  From Together, 1956.

For fear of a caretaker pulling back the ivy and showing us our own tombstone again, we visit cemeteries only when nobody's around.  From Together, 1957.

Don't miss our video about the three mystic tools we have on hand for any haunted cemetery.

Lisping oneself into the great Beyond is surely rarer than being killed by one's own art.  From Mitchell's 1921 yearbook.

A wish for you: if you're ever trapped within a mirrored tombstone, may there be a reflective sheet of glass nearby so that you can at least see things unreversed.  From Centenary's 1974 yearbook.

Win, place, show.  From The Text newspaper (Lowell Technological Institute), 1966.

From Duke's 1971 yearbook.