This is My Story

Richard Felix is most famous as the Historian for Living TV’s Most Haunted appearing in over 120 episodes.

Richard has always been fascinated in history, especially military history with a special interest in disasters e.g. Charge of the Light Brigade, The Alamo, Custer’s Last Stand, and the Titanic.

At the age of 18 he had his own personal disaster after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. “It is not until you are faced with death that you realise how important life is.”

For many years he has been a columnist for the Derby Telegraph, dealing with Derby’s fascinating local history He is a regular contributor to Radio Derby.

In 1992 Richard opened The Derby Heritage Centre. (A Tudor Grammar School) with ghosts and this started the origins of the now world famous Derby Ghost Walk.
Richard specialises in ghost tours around the U.K. and Ireland and has personally taken in excess of a million people on a ghost tour.

In 1995 he launched a campaign to erect a statue of Bonnie Prince Charlie in Derby. This he achieved after raising over £100,000

Twenty two years ago he opened the haunted Derby Gaol; scene of the last Hanging, Drawing and Quartering in England.

For many years Richard has delivered lectures and talks to Derby University and many Derby Schools, various W I groups, Rotary Clubs and after dinner speeches.
His specialised subjects are:-

• The Paranormal, (What is a Ghost)
• Murder Crime and Punishment.
• Executions butchery and torture.
• The Charge of the Light Brigade.
• Bonnie Prince Charlie
• Mary Queen of Scots.
• Derby the Crossroads of History.