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Amanda Teague
Born
Amanda Large
Known forPosthumous marriage, pirate impersonator

Amanda Sparrow Large Teague, born Amanda Large, is an Irish and Northern Irish pirate impersonator who worked as the only female Jack Sparrow impersonator in Northern Ireland. She became known for her posthumous marriage ceremony to Captain Jack Teague, who she claims was a pirate who died in the 1700s and the inspiration for Jack Sparrow. She made further news upon her revelation that she posthumously divorced him.

Career

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She spent time in Drogheda, but moved from Drogheda to Belfast in 2009. She worked as a publicist and entertainment manager until the death of her son at just three months old. Not long after, she found herself fascinated by Jack Sparrow and impersonated him for Belfast Pride.[1] Following that, she fully transformed herself into Sparrow and worked as a Jack Sparrow impersonator.[2] At this point, she also changed her name to make it Amanda Large Sparrow.[3]

She claims to have first met Jack Teague when he appeared in her bed in 2014.[4] She stated that she was meditating at the time, and that she asked him to leave, but he came back.[5] She has claimed that he is the ghost of a Haitian pirate from the 1700s that was executed for piracy. After two years of dating, in 2016, she created a marriage ceremony for them, getting married in international waters[6] and using a medium to state I do.[7] Although she has claimed that the marriage was legal, fact-checkers such as Snopes have stated that it was not legally valid.[8]

She announced that the two had split up months later.[9][10][11][12][13] She later claimed that Jack Teague had "never accepted his own death, so he wanted to continue living through my body".[14] Eventually, she clarified that she began feeling ill health just two weeks after the ceremony,[15] which she believed he may have caused, and became more worried after the spirit of her dog, Toby, was allegedly aggressive to Jack. Soon, she was admitted to a hospital with sepsis.[16] During surgery, she had to remove her wedding ring, and she has claimed this broke the connection. Eventually, she claims she told him she wanted to break up, and after he got aggressive and threatened to kill her, she exorcised him.[17]

She calls herself a "white witch".[18] She has discussed receiving online abuse after telling her story.[19] She has also stated she has no mental health problems.[20]

Excalibur Press published her first book, A Life You Will Remember, in 2017. In it, she alleges she is Ireland's only modern-day pirate.[21] She published her second book, A New Attitude, in 2019.[22]

Personal life

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In 2018, she publicly came out as asexual, stating that she had struggled with her sexuality from a young age,[23] and wrote an essay about asexuality for the Rainbow Project. She ran an organization for asexual people called Ace Belfast.[24]

References

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  1. ↑ Calder, Tina (January 25, 2016). "A Terrible Tragedy Made Amanda Re-evaluate Her Life, She Found Solace In Living Life As A Pirate". BAM. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  2. ↑ "Amanda Sparrow - Irish woman spends €6k on name change, tattoos, and gold teeth to transform into Jack Sparrow". The Irish Independent. Retrieved May 31, 2026.
  3. ↑ Balasundaram, Nemesha. "Belfast mum who spent £4,000 becoming a Jack Sparrow impersonator is loving life as modern day pirate". The Irish Post. Archived from the original on June 1, 2026. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  4. ↑ "Woman marries ghost after ditching real men". Yahoo Life. January 15, 2018. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  5. ↑ Iati, Marisa (July 14, 2019). "She says she married a pirate's ghost — and she wants you to stop calling her crazy". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on July 5, 2024. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  6. ↑ "Woman Marries Ghost of 18th Century Pirate in Ceremony on the High Seas". Inside Edition. February 28, 2018. Archived from the original on August 23, 2025. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  7. ↑ "Woman who 'married' ghost of 300-year-old Johnny Depp-lookalike pirate selling portrait of former lover after split". www.the-sun.com. Archived from the original on October 18, 2021. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  8. ↑ MacGuill, Dan (January 22, 2018). "FACT CHECK: Did an Irish Woman Legally Marry the Ghost of a Pirate From the 1700s?". Snopes. Archived from the original on April 20, 2026. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  9. ↑ "Woman Who Married a Ghost Pirate Says They've Split Up". ELLE. December 10, 2018. Archived from the original on August 24, 2025. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  10. ↑ Aggeler, Madeleine (December 10, 2018). "Love Is Dead: Woman and Her Pirate Ghost Husband Are Breaking Up". The Cut. Archived from the original on December 10, 2023. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  11. ↑ "Jack Sparrow Impersonator Claims To Have Divorced A 300-Year-Old Ghost Pirate". HuffPost. December 11, 2018. Archived from the original on December 25, 2024. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  12. ↑ "Woman Who Married 300-Year-Old Pirate Ghost Announces Their 'Marriage Is Over'". People.com. Archived from the original on November 25, 2024. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  13. ↑ "The woman who claims to have married a 300-year old pirate ghost wants a divorce | indy100 | indy100". www.indy100.com. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  14. ↑ "'I split from my ghost husband after he tried to kill me'". ITV. Retrieved May 31, 2026.
  15. ↑ "Meet the woman who married and then divorced a 300-year-old ghost". News24. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  16. ↑ "Woman wants divorce from her 300-year-old ghost husband". NZ Herald. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  17. ↑ Brent, Harry. "Northern Irish woman who 'married a 300-year-old pirate ghost needed an exorcism after he possessed her'". The Irish Post. Archived from the original on March 12, 2026. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  18. ↑ "Irish woman who married the ghost of a pirate said she's divorcing 300-year-old husband". WMAZ. December 10, 2018. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  19. ↑ "'They used my son's death against me' - woman who married pirate ghost speaks about online abuse". The Irish Independent. Retrieved May 31, 2026.
  20. ↑ "Eamonn Holmes questions woman's mental health after she divorced a pirate ghost". Metro. July 22, 2019. Archived from the original on September 26, 2022. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  21. ↑ "A Life You Will Remember". Goodreads. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  22. ↑ "A New Attitude". Goodreads. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  23. ↑ "WATCH: Irish woman married to the ghost of a pirate divorces him through exorcism". IrishCentral.com. July 22, 2019. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  24. ↑ Sparrow Large, Amanda (October 1, 2018). "I am asexual". The Rainbow Project. Archived from the original on April 21, 2026. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
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