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Woman marries ghost after ditching real men
Meet the woman who has ditched real-life men for a ghost - and legally married her 18th century spiritual lover.
Amanda Teague says 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 ghost sex - despite the fact he died almost 300 years ago.
“He is my soulmate. I am so happy, it is the perfect kind of relationship for me,” Amanda, 45, says.
“There are a lot of people out there who don’t know about spiritual relationships, but it could be right for them - I want to get the message out there.”
Amanda’s love affair with the spirit started in 2014 when she was lying in bed one night and could feel his energy lying beside her.
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 while watching TV or driving her car, and so the pair started to get to know each other, when she began to develop “strong loving feelings” towards him.
“We became really close, the more I learnt about him, the more I liked him,” Amanda, from Northern Ireland, says.
“One day he said to me ‘We can actually be together you know’ but I had never heard of an intimate relationship between a spirit and a human before.
“I 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.”
While Amanda was married before and has five-children with her ex-husband, she says she’s never been able to relate to anyone alive the way she connects to Jack.
Funnily enough, 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.
However, according to Amanda 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.
He was even engaged at one point previously, but was left at the altar.
Two years after they first met, the couple got engaged.
“Jack proposed to me,” Amanda says.
“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.
“I wanted the big traditional wedding with the white dress, it was very important to me.”
Amazingly, Amanda hired a registrar and journeyed into international waters in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Irish Coast so she could legally marry him - using a spiritual medium to allow him to say ‘I do’ during the ceremony.
Marrying a dead person is legal in certain countries such as France, Singapore and China, so by going into waters which aren’t governed by any particular country, Jack and Amanda’s union can be upheld.
Amanda chose a 1700s style dress - similar to the ones from Jack’s time - to wear to the ceremony.
“I told him I didn’t want him to see the dress before the wedding but if he had a cheeky sneak peek while I was trying it on, I wouldn’t know,” Amanda says.
“I don’t know where he is or when he is around most of the time - it is hard to keep secrets from him.”
The couple also had matching rings designed for the ceremony, which incorporated brass, Jack’s favourite metal, and white-gold, which is Amanda’s.
Because Jack cannot wear his ring, it has been fitted to a candle which was used in the wedding ceremony to represent him.
A medium said “I do” on Jack’s behalf before they returned to shore for a wedding reception.
And sealing the deal? Well Amanda says sex with a spirit is surprisingly similar to sex with a physical human - and can even have a happy ending.
“The only difference with having a sexual relationship with a spirit is obviously that sense of touch goes a lot deeper,” she explains.
“You can feel the weight of the spirit, their touch, the pressure," she says.
“You can literally feel the physical act of what the spirit is doing to you, and the spirit can feel it too.”
Amanda, who signs all her documentation as ‘married’, says her family and friends are very accepting of her spiritual relationship and that Jack is treated like part of the family.
He is included in Christmas cards, invited to parties and there is always a place set up for him at the dinner table.
Amanda swears she and Jack and are like any other normal couple, and says they even have date nights, where they go out for dinner, drinks and even to the cinema.
Amanda says she was inspired to speak out about her relationship after reading about spiritual advisor Amethyst Realm, 27, who only has sex with ghosts.
Amanda and Jack are now co-writing a book about their relationship, with advice for other singletons on how to find a soulmate on the other side.
The book will be called ‘Ain’t no grave can hold my body back’, after the Johnny Cash song - one of Jack’s favourite singers.
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