Amanda Large Teague was meditating the first time she says she met the ghost of a 300-year-old Haitian pirate. She thought he was rude to interrupt her solitude, so she told him to leave. Then he showed up again. After she communicated with the ghost for several months, Teague said, she became convinced that he was Jack Teague, who she later claimed had inspired the character of Captain Jack Sparrow in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies.
"If you believe in God or angels, if you believe in anything that's not of this earthly realm, then you believe in spirit," Teague said. "So why would you find what happened to me beyond the realm of possibility?" In New Age spiritualities, communicating with people who have died is common. Pegi Eyers, author of "Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community," told The Post that New Age practitioners frequently consider themselves to have relationships with spirits. Teague's situation, though, is less common. Eyers said she could not be sure whether Teague genuinely believed she had married the ghost of a Haitian pirate.
"It has a certain place within paganism. It's not so different from 'invisible others' in general," Luhrmann said. "It's not so different than what kids do. But in the end, she's clearly a little unusual." Most of Teague's friends at the time were part of the same spiritual circles as she was, so she said they immediately supported her relationship with Jack, as did her four living children from a previous marriage. Teague's parents had more questions about their daughter's relationship. Her mother eventually came to the shamanic wedding, but not to the handfasting. Her father, Teague said, came to neither.
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