RICHARD JONES, LONDON’S LEADING GHOST WALK GUIDE.

"Walking Tours of London are now a crowded market, but Richard Jones keeps ahead of the pack with impeccable research, and having honed his performance in more than 5,000 guided tours....."

  THE EVENING STANDARD.

Richard Jones has been researching and writing about the ghosts of Britain and Ireland for twenty-five years, and pioneered such popular London tours as The Jack the Ripper Walk and the London Ghost Walk.  He has been devising and conducting haunted tours since 1982 and also runs the popular website of  London walks and tours. For Halloween 2003 Richard was contracted to select the top 13 haunted sites in London for the Mayor of London's Totally London campaign. In 2004 he was contracted by Strongbow cider  to choose the top 10 haunted pubs in Britain as part of their 'Bitter Sweet' campaign. He is widely acknowledged as the best ghost walk guide in London with a track record that, literally, speaks for itself.

                                                 AN INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED GHOST BOOK AUTHOR.

Richard is the author of 14 best selling books, the majority of which are about the ghosts of Britain and Ireland. These are Walking Haunted London (1999); Haunted Britain and Ireland (2001); Haunted Castles of Britain and Ireland (2002); Haunted Inns of Britain and Ireland (2004); Haunted London (2004); and Haunted Houses of Britain and Ireland, which will be published on Halloween 2005. His other books are Memorable Walks In London, first published in 1994 and now in its 6th edition; England’s Favorite Cities; (1995); Walking Dickensian London (2003); Myths and Legends of Britain and Ireland (2202); That’s Magic (2001); Mystical Britain and Ireland (2005); Uncovering Jack the Ripper’s London which will be published in 2007. In addition he has also written guides to Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Stratford, Bath, Chester, Dublin, plus as The Ring of Kerry and Dingle on Ireland’s west coast. In addition he is also the webmaster for the internationally acclaimed website www.haunted-britain.com. He is currently walking on a new book of walks about the capital's more mysterious history entitled History and Mystery. This will be published in October 2007.

FREQUENTLY SEEN ON BRITISH TELEVISION.

As well as his prolific writing output, Richard is also a regular guest on British television programmes. He has appeared on BBC1’s Breakfast News discussing the ghosts of Hampton Court Palace, the history and cultural significance of Halloween, and the ghosts of Britain and Ireland. He appeared on ITV’s This Morning, where he discussed the authenticity of the Hampton Court ghost caught on CCTV in October 2004. He was featured on Channel Five’s Divine Designs discussing the impact that the Jack the Ripper murders had on the Spitalfields area, and even appeared on BBC 1’s Blue Peter on Halloween 2004, on which programme he told the chilling tale of the Bank Nun, for which he even received a coveted Blue Peter badge! He has appeared several times on the capital’s main news programme London Tonight, leading many a reporter into the darker side of London's history to discuss the most haunted spots in the metropolis. On Halloween 2006 he appeared on BBC Breakfast News to discuss the origins and history of Halloween.

MOST HAUNTED LIVE

On New Years Eve 2003 Richard joined the team on Living TV’s hugely successful Most Haunted Live as one of the programme's resident historians. He has now appeared on nine Most Haunted Lives and has had first hand experience of investigations in places as diverse as an old World War 11 RAF base in Snowdonia; Pendle Hill in Lancashire; Derby Gaol; Elstree Film and Television Studios; Berry Pomeroy Castle in Devon (by his own admission one of the most chilling places Richard ever went to); and the National Coal Mining Museum in Barnsley. Subject wise he has helped research the history of a wide range of characters whom the programme has covered, these include highwayman Dick Turpin, Witch-finder General Matthew Hopkins, and even William Shakespeare. More recently he joined the team of Ghost Towns

A REGULAR GUEST ON INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION PROGRAMMES.

Richard has also appeared on the History Channel’s Haunted History:- London Special, for which programme he also acted as locations and historical adviser. He braved the horrors inside the most haunted house in London (50 Berkeley Square) for the programme Haunted London, making him the only ghost walk guide in the capital to have been allowed inside the haunted room of this legendary house after night fall! He was also interviewed for the Travel Channel’s Haunted Hotels.

He appears on the DVD that accompanies the Johnny Depp film From Hell, discussing the legend and the identity of Jack the Ripper. He was a presenter for the History Channel’s The Hunt For Jack the Ripper, in which capacity he took viewers around the Jack the Ripper murder sites. He performed a similar role on the Travel Channel's It Happened Here Jack the Ripper programme. Other television credits include The Discovery Channel’s Giants, Friend or Foe? On which he told the tale of London’s legendary giants Gog and Magog, and for which he also travelled to St Michaels Mount in Cornwall, to tell the story of Jack the Giant Killer. He was interviewed for the History Channel’s XY Factor programmes Sex in World War Two and Sex in the Cold War (discussing the historical aspects before you ask!), and on March 30th 2005 he appeared on the History Channel’s Conquerors, discussing the events leading up to, and significance of, the Norman Conquest of 1066.

In 2004 he wrote and presented the drama documentary Unmasking Jack the Ripper, which Ripperologist magazine hailed as “probably the best…[Jack the Ripper]… documentary to be released in recent years.”

DON'T JUST TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

So when considering taking a ghost walk in London, don’t settle for second best. Ensure that you book yourself and your family or friends on to the only London Ghost Walk led by a genuine and acknowledged expert in the field. Or, as journalists on three of Britain’s top newspapers put it, having experienced first hand a tour with Richard Jones:-

"... this is an eerie, historical site.. and, without a single prop, Richard Jones succeeds in conjuring more potent memories out of the area than from a neighbourhood full of palaces ..."
THE SUNDAY TIMES

"...The joy of walking about with an enthusiast such as Richard Jones is the discovery of a place you thought you knew; not re-discovery, but truly seeing it for the first time..."

ANNA PUKAS. DAILY EXPRESS.