In 2018, 45-year-old Amanda Teague from Northern Ireland married the ghost of an 18th-century pirate during a ceremony at sea. She called him her soulmate, then accused him of trying to “kill” her.
Amanda Teague spent years as a Jack Sparrow impersonator at festivals, but her fascination with pirates soon blurred into something else. In 2018, she made global headlines claiming she had married the ghost of a 300-year-old Haitian pirate named Jack. The wedding happened in a private ceremony held in international waters in Feb. 2018.
In her own account, the relationship began long before the boat. After losing her son in 2010, Amanda said she turned to spirituality for answers, and discovered a “link to the other side.” Five years later, she said, Jack “presented himself” to her. But it took her a long time to believe who he said he was. She said,
“It was several months before I actually believed he was who he said he was, and because it’s very hard to verify if a spirit is telling you the truth when their directory is three hundred years.”
How did Amanda Teague and Jack’s relationship begin?
Months later, Amanda Teague eventually believed Jack and began talking a lot. She told interviewers that she and Jack married through a medium who relayed his consent, since a ghost cannot sign paperwork. She added that the physical body “isn’t really important,” to her, claiming “it’s more about the energy connection.”
She described their bond as “intimate rather than physical.” But within months, the relationship changed.
“The first time I noticed anything wrong was a couple of months after we got married… My house just kept getting worse and worse… to the point that I ended up with sepsis and almost died.”
Why did Amanda end the marriage with Jack?
According to her, Jack was using her as a source of energy. She revealed that he refused to “accept his own death” and wanted to continue living through her. It wasn’t until after her sepsis operation that she realized Jack wanted to harm her. Teague then claimed to have undergone an exorcism in Dec. 2018 to get rid of Jack’s ghost.
“It took me a while to figure out that it was definitely him who was doing it, and that he intended to harm me. So, when I realized that he did, I ended up having an exorcism.”
By the end of the year, Amanda Teague publicly declared that the marriage was over. Despite admitting, “In a way, yes, I do regret it,” she remains philosophical about her paranormal misadventure. She remarked that it gave her a lot of lessons and that he still believes that everything happens for a reason.
Fact-checkers later confirmed the marriage ceremony did happen as Teague described. But also noted there was no legal record of such a marriage in Ireland or anywhere else, since it’s not a legalized form of marriage. Amanda Teague’s story has now become part modern ghost tale, part viral folklore.
