So where did the mysterious Ghostwriter come from? The show never answered this. Recently, however, the show's producer Kermit Frazier revealed the one mystery not solved in the show.
"Ghostwriter was a runaway slave during the Civil War," Frazier said. "He was killed by slave catchers and their dogs as he was teaching other runaway slaves how to read in the woods. His soul was kept in the book and released once Jamal discovered the book."
That's right. The ghost that was helping these children was gruesomely murdered years ago and had his soul trapped in a book. Maybe it's a good thing he could only roughly communicate. As we know from the movies, ghosts resulting from murders are usually pretty mad.
