Meet Amanda Teague, the woman who has ditched real-life men for a ghost - and legally married her 18th-century spiritual lover.

Amanda Teague said she couldn't connect with anyone in the physical world, so looked to the afterlife to find her kindred spirit.

 

Like any normal couple, Amanda and her husband Jack Teague go on dates, have arguments and even have sex - despite the fact he died almost 300 years ago.

And amazingly, Amanda even hired a registrar and journeyed into international waters so she could legally marry him - using a spiritual medium to allow him to say 'I do' during the ceremony.

Amanda and Jack had a special ceremony to unite them in matrimony.

 

Amanda, 45, said that the spirit is her soul mate and she's happy, it is the perfect kind of relationship 

"There are a lot of people out there who don't know about spiritual relationships, but it could be right for them - she would always say

Amanda's love affair with the spirit started in 2014 when she was lying in bed one night and could feel his energy laying beside her.

Amanda and her husband Jack Teague go on dates, have arguments and even have sex.

She says she initially wasn't that interested in making contact with the spirit, until she realised she could speak to him through mediumship.

The spirit used to sit with her when she watched TV or while she was driving her car, and the pair started to get to know each other.

 

Amanda says she soon started developing "strong loving feelings" towards him.

She says: "We became really close, the more I learnt about him, the more I liked him.

Amanda said, One day the spirit said to her 'We can actually be together you know' but she said, she had never heard of an intimate relationship between a spirit and a human before.

She revealed that she did some research and found out that it is a real thing and there are lots of people in spiritual relationships, but not many people like to talk about it."

Amanda had a previous marriage to a "physical being" for six years, and had five children with her ex husband.

But says she has never been able to relate to anyone alive the way she connects to Jack.

Amanda says in his past life, her husband was a Haitian pirate who lived in the 1700s.

He was eventually caught and suffered a traumatic death - being executed for being a thief on the high seas.

Jack was left at the altar before Amanda

Amanda says Jack had one serious relationship whilst he was alive; he was even engaged to be married, but his fiance changed her mind and left him at the altar.

Jack would have to wait three centuries before he finally got the wedding of his dreams.

Amanda works as a Captain Jack Sparrow impersonator and believes the pirate connection is what brought them together.

And even though she has never seen her husband in physical form, she imagines he is very similar to the character of Captain Jack, played by Johnny Depp, 54, in the movie series Pirates of the Caribbean.

"He is black, so he is not the same colour as Johnny Depp, but he is dark skinned and has very dark jet-black hair, so he tells me," Amanda says.

Having lived hundreds of years ago, the world Jack lived in is very different to the one he sees today.

But Amanda says he is fascinated by modern technology, especially mobiles phones and tablets, and he likes trying to switch them on and off.

Amanda says: "I have always had a real fascination with his era, I like a lot of the stuff from that time.

"And there is a lot about the modern world that he likes. I am very 1700s and he is quite modern, so it balances out."

Jack is a powerful spirit

Amanda says Jack is a very powerful spirit and has witnessed him turning stereos on and off, flickering lights and even moving things.

Two years after they first met, the couple got engaged.

"Jack proposed to me," Amanda said.

"I told him I wasn't really cool with having casual sex with a spirit and I wanted us to make a proper commitment to each other. 

she said if she's going to be in a long-term relationship with somebody, she has the right to be married

"I wanted the big traditional wedding with the white dress, it was very important to me."- she would say

Amanda found a Shaman priest and legal registrar who agreed to marry the couple - despite their unusual relationship dynamic.

They married in international waters

There is no provision in UK law for posthumous marriages, so the couple took a boat into international waters in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Irish Coast, for their ceremony.

Marrying a dead person is legal in certain countries such as France, Singapore and China,

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