A 47-year-old woman, Amanda Teague, has narrated her bizarre ordeal in the hands of her spiritual husband, a 300-year-old pirate, Jack, who died after being executed in the 1700s for thieving on the high seas.

The 47-year-old said the ghost (Jack) nearly killed her after she dumped him due to her ill health and a turbulent relationship.

Amanda Teague said she was forced to stop having sex with the ghost after her health deteriorated and claims her marriage even landed her in hospital.

She met Jack after growing tired of “physical world” men and the couple got legally married on a boat off the Irish coast in international waters after two years together, the Sun reports.

Amanda said: “After two weeks of marriage, I started to get health problems.

“I started to get reoccurring perianal abscesses and I was suffering from cirrhosis.

“About four or five months in, when things started to go really downhill, I went back to some of the people that had communicated with Jack.

“I know the symptoms of possession and part of it is ill health.

“So I was concerned that it was to do with the relationship because of the timeline.

“But I was assured that he was a lovely spirit who wouldn’t harm me.”

Amanda tried to get on with her marriage but she says the final straw came when her dog Toby died – despite her begging him to keep him until she passed away so they could be reunited.

But the pooch was “incredibly aggressive and wouldn’t go near him” and soon after Amanda found her health was going downhill.

She began developing abscesses each time she slept with the ghost so she stopped their sexual relationship – with her health dramatically improving.

Amanda said: “Once I stopped having sexual contact with Jack, the abscesses started to improve.

“So anyway, one night, a friend of mine got married to her spiritual partner and Jack and I ended up being intimate.

“The very next day, the abscess was back with a vengeance.

“So then I started to get really concerned.”

In May last year, Amanda said she nearly died after developing sepsis and realised when her wedding ring came off for surgery that her husband had been “stealing her energy”.

She confronted Jack but claims he threatened to kill her if she attempted to break off their spiritual union.

But Amanda claims her health has improved drastically since she left the pirate and she has now sworn off all spiritual work.

At the wedding, she held a flag bearing a skull and crossbone as a symbol for her husband but because Jack couldn’t wear his ring, it was fitted to a candle used to represent him.

Amanda, who worked as a Captain Jack Sparrow impersonator, paid a whopping €6,000 to change her name legally and a shaman priest performed the ceremony.

She previously claimed that she and 300-year-old Jack went on dates, had rows and even had an active sex life, adding: “Spiritual sex is all about being able to feel the energy. It’s nothing to do with masturbation.

“So although it can be tried from any position, missionary is probably best to start with because it’s easier to feel their weight and take it from there.”