From Fate Magazine, 1954.

"Fortunately for themselves, spirits don't depend on our belief for their existence."  From Dark Shadows, episode 167.

From Shadowland, 1920.

The problem of apathy in the spirit world is too rarely discussed.  "The spirits don't care!"  From Dark Shadows episode 1215.

We can vouch for this -- the most exciting visitors are those who don't come to dinner.  From Together, 1962.

From The Cosmic Survey, 1922.

Ghosts haunt the preface of Wesleyan College's 1930 yearbook.

The night is dark and full of spirits, and they want to help cure you of your fear of death. Because when your work here is finally done, you'll be able to join them in their nightly dance and jail-break out of the prison of matter. 

 

I mean, if you so choose.

Get out there and open yourself up to the world of the spirits.There are all kinds for you to meet: animal spirits, nature spirits, ancestor spirits, star spirits, you name it. The good ones don't want anything from you, because you don't have anything they need. 

 

You really have nothing to offer them but your company. Be generous with it, and they will soothe your stresses and anxieties and peel away your terror of the grave. Guaranteed.

Spirit forces from Encyclopedia of the Unexplained by Richard Cavendish, 1974.

From Le Régiment, 1914.

An illustration by Arthur Hughes for Speaking Likenesses (1874).

"In his dream, he saw the spirits from the graveyard." From Voodoo Island by Michael Duckworth, 1989.

An illustration by L. Ehrenberger.  From Lustige Blätter, 1919.

From Kladderadatsch, 1926.

Use of the Dead to the Living, 1828.

"Spirits from Pluto's realms appear."  From The Fables of Aesop, 1925.

Memories of college.  From Elon's 1915 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.