AUBURN – “True Stories of Ghosts at Gettysburg” will be told by Civil War historian and living-history performer Charles Plummer at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at the Book Burrow and Caf.

“If it is perturbed spirits who return or remain where they reluctantly left some unfinished business or resigned this world too suddenly for their journey into the next, or to some touchstone where they need to find the answer not to why they died, but why they lived, then the Gettysburg Battlefield is as likely a place as any for them to be,” Plummer said.

Ghosts and ghost sightings generate eternal and somewhat scientific questions about the nature of time, the seemingly inviolable laws of energy and physics, about existence of life after death, and about the nature of life itself.

Many people condemn such tales because they seem to document happenings after death. And yet one-fifth of the world’s population have built their religion specifically around life after death and are called Christians. In addition to these, most of the rest of the world’s major religions believe in another world that is beyond or parallel with the one that is visible.

As far as finding an event that should supply America with innumerable stories, explained or unexplained, Plummer believes there cannot be an event more striking than the Civil War, the greatest of all spiritual calamities in which the two sections of our country tore at each other’s entrails until we were fortunate that either side remained.

Something has been happening at Gettysburg since the battle and many people, including Plummer himself, have seen and heard things they cannot explain, but were certain enough they saw or heard to repeat them to others.

The public is invited.