From the University of Western Ontario's 1944 yearbook.

From Wittenberg College's 1952 yearbook.

A library ghost (confirmed by our custom Uncanny Detector app), from Pfeiffer's 1974 yearbook.

Here's an account of a library ghost, from Middlebury College Magazine, 1992.

Here'a a library ghost from the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1976.  Whether for payback or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Here's a library ghost in the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1976.  Whether for payback or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

This spindly armed ghost haunts Elmhurst's 1959 yearbook.

Here's a library ghost from the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1976.  Whether for payback or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Here's a library ghost from the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1976.  Whether for payback or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

It sounds like a note on the blueprints for Disneyland's Haunted Mansion: "Library needs insufficient lighting."  From Daily Tar Heel, 1939.

An illustration from A Fatal Fiddle by Edward Heron Allen (1890).  The caption reads: "He had seen the hand on the former occasion—there it was—wandering from shelf to shelf."

Our illustration could (but doesn't) accompany this line:

"[T]he hazards of scholarship and mortality: he was overwhelmed by the weight of documentation, by his own erudition, by overambition." —Mark Goldie, "Roger Morrice and the History of Puritanism," Religious Identities in Britain, 1660-1832