Noah Novak : Is Noah Novak really a time Traveler from 2030?

Hey friends, hows it going? 

Thought we'd take a break from unsolved murders and missing people this week to take a look at something a bit more lighthearted. 

I woke to this morning to several DM’s all directing me to online articles about a self-confessed time traveler named Noah.

“Time traveller’ man from 2030 makes specific predictions for the future” read the headline of an article from news.com.au.

“Time travel SHOCK CLAIM: Man from the 'year 2030' says ALIENS become ALLIES with the US” cried the Express online.

“BACK TO THE FUTURE Man claiming to be a time-traveller from 2030 ‘PASSES lie-detector test’… and he has these predictions for the next 10 years” wrote the Sun.

I had to get to the bottom of this.

Everyone loves a good time traveller story, just ask you tube; “Time travellers caught on tape”, “time traveller took this video in the year 2120”, “Time traveller caught on 911 call’.

Remember that photograph of the “Time travelling hipster”?

Admittedly in a sea of generic folk from the 1940’s dressed in suits and hats, the dude in the shades and casual clothing holding a portable camera does stand out- but is his casual attire really undeniable evidence of time travel? 

After much excitement the seemingly modern items in the photograph were proven to have been available and on the market at the time the image was captured. The logo tee turned out to be a hockey jersey, the protective glasses were on sale at the time and the camera was confirmed by Kodak as likely being a Kodak 35, which was introduced in 1938.

So, friends, it’s now time for us to look into the newest time traveler on the block, a man from the year 2030- the man known only as “Noah”.

 Apparently the first video of Noah appeared on YouTube on the 17^th of November 2017. The first result on YouTube is a video by a channel called paranormal elite that currently has 33K subscribers. The video, titled “Time Traveler Who Has Been To The Year 2030 Shares His Experiences”, is (at the time I write this) sitting at over 2million views.

The introduction lays out the basic information we need to know about who Noah is. The channel claims that an individual located in Guadalajara, Mexico contacted them via phone and claimed to be an ex-US government worker who was fired after failing a time-travel mission in South America. The individual identified himself as only “Noah” as he feared he would be taken out by the US government if they were to discover his identity. Noah claimed that he was 50 years old, but had taken an age reversal drug that shaved off 25 years, making him appear to be 25 years old. He told Paranormal Elite that the constant time travel had affected him mentally that he has depression and an eating disorder as a result.

After the introduction we see a video of Noah clad in a burgundy with his face obscured, reading from a pre-written statement explaining that he is a time traveler and wants to prove to us all that time travel will be available to the public in 2028.  To do so, he claims that he has traveled back to the 13^th of November 2017 from the year 2021- which he claims is where he existed for most of his “natural life”.

The statement is then interrupted by Noah getting seemingly overwhelmed before asking for a moment to compose himself . At one point he starts sobbing and the P.E channel slides in a message telling viewers not to feel bad as they have donated around “$700 in food and water to help him get by”.

In order to prove that he really is from the future, Noah has provided us with a list of predictions for technologies that will be available to us in the near future- 2021 to be exact. 

Here’s the list:

1.        Electric cars that are able to cover an average of 600 miles on one full charge

2.        HD video recording glasses with augmented reality. Basically like Terminator shades or an advanced pair of Google glasses that can do way more than show you maps and make a phone call. These 2021 glasses will supposedly have an augmented reality screen that will basically allow us to perceive generated data that we can see, hear and touch etc.  Essentially we’ll be living in the “black mirror” universe in a couple of years.

3.       Trump will be re-elected. He’s 100% certain, apparently.

After displaying some symptoms of stress, he wishes us good luck for the future and signs off.

On the 5^th of August, 2018, a YouTube channel called APEX TV boasting 686K followers posted a follow up interview with Noah titled: “Time Traveler Noah From 2030 Tells His Story”.  A far cry from the 3 minute video originally posted on Paranormal Elite, this video is over 37 minutes long.

It’s important to note that paranormal elite is part of APEXTV.

Now I actually sat down and watched that 37 minute video (I know) and I thought I’d recap it here for you, so you can skim-read what Noah claims to be his story:

In 2025 Noah was in his teens and attending high school. He was bullied for having a stutter as a child, but was smart and got good grades- in fact he got straight A’s across the board. One day, out of the blue, a pair of men with shaved heads, clad in suits (he accidentally describes them as “tuxedos”) had him pulled into the office and forced him into a top secret government program where he would have to travel through time to complete missions and the past and future. He was prohibited to tell anyone about the project and began to feel isolated from the rest of the world.

He was driven out to a military complex in the middle of the Nevada desert where he had to register as a worker. He was then led down a staircase into a basement level facility where he saw an unfathomably large glass time machine crawling with mechanics. He signed an 8 year contact with the government and was put into a small class of  trainees (five in total)  and lived at an on-site dorm with minimal furnishings. From there he studied until it came time to take the final exam, which he passed. A chip was then implanted into his left wrist- a painful procedure that had him in intense pain for several days.

 Noah hated the job, but he could be at least relieved in the knowledge that he didn’t have a contract as long as some of the others in his class, some of whom received 50 – life.  

His group consisted of three males and one female. The government, he realized, preferred to hire straight white males when it came to time travel, so he was surprised that they hired both a woman and an “Arab man named Reuben” , both of who were members of his group the first time they went on a time travel mission. Rueben was a first timer too, and the pair became friends.

In order to time travel, he had to gear up into a large suit made of metal. After a computerized voice countdown the metal suit was shocked with electricity and he later woke up lightheaded and disorientated. He found himself in the year 2009, guided by his supervisor. He and his teammates spent a week in the year 2009 at the same military complex from which they had time traveled, doing manual jobs such as running boxes from the building to trucks outside. Other project employees had been time traveling to the past to set up domes as hot-spots for future time travel missions.

Noah was tasked with studying history.

He studied extra-terrestrials as a segment on future-history and the advancement of technology and crypto currencies as a study of the past, all the while noting down information that was to be later entered into a huge government database. Noah was unsure what they wanted with the information and came to the conclusion that the government just simply wanted to know and record everything.

His final job took place in South America where his group was sent to time travel in order to study cartels, most notably narcoterrorist Pablo “king of cocaine” Escobar who was killed in 1993.

During the mission, the team got into an altercation at a local bar creating a time paradox. The following morning he awoke to the news that he had been fired and had been abandoned in the year 2017.  

Left without a job and abandoned outside of his “natural year” he took to freelancing online as a graphic designer. The minimum wage salary the government been paying him had left him with empty pockets and the food and shelter they had originally covered was no longer provided. He found himself living between cheap apartments in South America.  

There you have it- Noah’s story.

Now I found out that Noah actually reached out to ApexTV  of his own accord (or so he says), after seeing another video on the channel about a time traveler titled “Time Traveler Who Has Been to The Year 2118 Speaks Out”. The monetized video has over 7 million views and likely raked in a lot of money in ad revenue. Follow-up videos about the same individual include Q&A’s and “Photographic evidence” of the future in the form of a grainy looking futuristic city with twisted jade towers that also look like cacti from a distance.

Many of the videos on the APEXTV channel are time-travelers “telling all” and showing “photographs from the future” and they get a lot of views. The comments on the videos are usually jokes and jabs at the individuals claiming to be from the future.  

These videos do significantly better than the ones about cyrptids and whatnot and if you go back far enough you’ll see that the channel had tried many avenues with  very different types of content that just didn’t work out for them. 

Time travel, however, seems to be their niche and they can generate millions of views and even news coverage that leads to tens of thousands of views from readers who would never be motivated to search for this kind of content on their own. 

Noah recently did a 2 hour live stream answering people’s questions. Even in the name of research I cannot bring myself to sit through a two hour stream, but I did click-skip through it and it seems to be Noah answering viewers questions on topic such as “will North Korea do it?” (To which he replies, yes, but he can’t say where”), “is the Earth round?” (Not sure we need a time traveler for that answer) “Is rap still relevant in the future?” (Yes)

When a viewer asked Noah how old he is, he talks about how he should be 21 but has been taking “age pills” before stating “I was born in the year 2007. So right now I am 11 years old. I’m probably out there in middle school, somewhere in the United states”.  When the host asked if he would be up for meeting himself he says he isn’t sure- then astoundingly Noah reveals his full name.

This honestly made me pause for a minute, because while researching this guy he was banging on about not letting anyone to know his identity for fear of being killed off by the government and then suddenly in a stream he just announces that his full name is “Noah Novak”.

In a later video Noah does a lie detector test, the majority of questions he asks are confirmed as “true”.  He does not answer “yes” or “no” rather answers at length and we see no machine. 

He has what looks like a sphygmomanometer inflatable cuff strapped around his upper arm and nothing around his chest, hands or head, like we’re used to seeing in routine lie detector tests. Even when legitimate, these tests are not 100% accurate and if you can control the symptoms of anxiety, you can control the test.  We also have to take into account that if, for example, an individual suffering from delusions answers questions about what they truly believe to be their reality, no deception would be recorded in a lie detector test.

So next, APEXTV releases a video titled “Time Traveler Took This Video in The Year 2120” which is a classic part of their formula for these time-travel videos. 

Yes, Noah has suddenly returned with, not a picture, but a video of the year 2120.

I have to admit; I skipped most of the video and got right to the clip where he shows this video evidence of the year “2120”. I LOL’d.

It basically looks like a CGI clip of a futuristic looking city with flying cars on a loop. I made this GIF for your convenience.

“It’s been distorted by time travel” he says. A phrase heard in several other time-travel videos on APEXTV. 

The story gets even more wild than it already is.

On March 5^th 2018 APEXTV published a video titled- “Time Traveler Meets His Future Self”. In this video Noah Novak meets a man who (allegedly) contacted the channel claiming to be Noah from the year 2070 (30 years ahead of Noah’s “natural year”)

Noah and future Noah have very little in common physically; in fact the only stand out feature they both have is a pixelated face. Despite their physical difference (including height and accent) Noah claims that future-him knows information that only someone who has “stalked him his whole life” could know.  He also informs Noah that “their” name isn’t really Noah – the real name has been censored in editing. 

Surely other time-travellers or shady government workers that exist in Noah’s “black mirror” universe would have the means to know such information, but Noah believes future-him solely on the basis that “future Noah” contacted APHEXTV by himself. So what information did future Noah provide present Noah with that was so irrefutable? 

Classified.  

But future Noah knows how present Noah “moves around”.

And any information or predictions future Noah could give us from the year 2070?

He can’t say. 

He shouldn’t say. 

But just in case he does, he’s micro chipped to prevent him from doing so.  (Note: it’s not the wrist chip from the original story apparently)

APEXTV mention contacting a doctor to do a DNA and X-ray “test” following the interview, to which the two (or one?) agree. 

They promise to post the results on twitter or Instagram, but have not done so as of yet. 

Future video, perhaps?

I believe APEXTV know Noah IRL and he’s likely collecting a portion of the Ad revenue or is already connected to them in some way. Either that or we’re left with the idea that he’s reached out himself as a prank to get a bit of internet fame. I really don’t want to believe that “Noah Novak” genuinely believes any of this and I’m sure if he did his family or those close to him would have gotten him help by now.

 This likely isn’t the last we’ve seen of Noah and his signature pixelated face and maroon shirts, so for those of you that want to follow his predictions, you can do so on APEXTV's channel. 

Honestly, as ridiculous as I find this story, I can’t deny that’s its actually been fun and also it’s a nice break from the unsolved murders and missing people cases we’ve been looking at here on RLIH. 

I most likely won’t update on this story, as I think I’ve had my fill of Noah Novak for now, but maybe I’ll give them a follow on instagram. Maybe?

Until next time, stay safe everyone.