Jamie Fraser's ghost age in Outlander explained as questions remain over his death

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The Droughtlander has officially started with no firm release date for season eight, which will be the last one for the Starz series.However, when the show does return for the last time fans will be hoping the biggest mystery will finally be answered: Jamie Fraser’s (played by Sam Heughan) ghost.The Highlander’s ghostly figure appeared back in the very first episode of Outlander and was spotted by Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies) gazing up at Claire Fraser (Caitríona Balfe).Moreover, Outlander’s author Diana Gabaldon has confirmed she will be ending her epic saga with a scene between Jamie’s ghost and Claire.As of writing, Jamie is alive and well both in the books and the TV series with neither he nor Claire likely to be killed off in either iteration.His ghost on the other hand is confirmed to be 25, which is around the time the Scot was fighting in the Battle of Culloden in 1746.Speaking on the Outlander podcast back in 2014, the 73-year-old American author said: “Sam Heughan asked me, and I hadn’t thought about it before.

But I just answered him immediately. He’s about 25.”There’s been little explanation of the ghost, but fans have their own theories and recently took to Reddit to discuss it further with much debate about whether or not Jamie dies.One posted: “[S]he said the ghost is APPEARING as age 25 - she didn't say he died at 25.

As others pointed out, he's decades beyond that already. The ghost doesn't have to take on the visage and manifest itself as the age he was upon death - that time has no meaning.“Think of it this way -When we lose loved ones to something horrible like cancer that's debilitated them, the sentiment is that they're at peace now as they were before all that, not stuck in that same pain in the