Richard Senate has been a resident of Ventura County for most of his life. He attended Ventura High School, Ventura Community College and Long Beach State University where he earned a degree in History. He did a year of post-graduate work in Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara.
While doing some field work through Cal Poly San Luis Obispol, Richard saw a ghost monk at Mission San Antonio de Padua. This chance encounter changed his life. He began to study ghosts and related supernatural topics, becoming one of the pioneers in the paranormal field.
He has appeared on "Search for Haunted Hollywood" (Fox), "Sightings" (UPN), "Haunted Houses" (A&E), "Haunted Hotels and Haunted History" (History Channel). Most recently he appeared on "DeadFamous" in the UK.
Richard is the author of 14 published works on ghosts and history including "Hollywood Ghosts," "Ghosts of the Haunted Coast" and "Ghost-stalker's Guide to Haunted California." His newest work, "The Shocking Psychic Solution to the Lizzie Borden Case," is about to be published.
He leads tours of haunted sites and holds classes on ghost hunting in Ventura. He also managed two historic museums and served the city of Ventura as a historian for 22 years.
Richard lived briefly in Carson City, NV, where he investigated several haunted sites in that community and Virginia City.
He writes a column in the "Ojai Valley Voice" newspaper about psychic subjects and also contributes to the "Ventura County Star" newspaper.
Richard currently resides in Oak View, CA, a small town of 5,000 people just 7 miles north of Ventura with his wife of 24 years and their 17-year-old daughter Megan. He continues to research and investigate the unknown, seeking answers to the riddles of ghosts and haunted houses.
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