 FACT: Spike and Willow are talking in Buffys dorm room after Spike  proves unable to bite Willow. Spike says hes 126 years old. 1999  (the air date) minus 126 is only 1873. This cannot be Spikes years  as a vampire as we learn that he was turned in 1880. So he has been  a vamp for at least 119 years, granted. However that would only make  William seven years old at the time of his death. Which cannot be as  he is in his upper twenties to at least his mid