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 17th 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 13th 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 5th 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 5th 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.
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.
I appreciate the time and effort you put into researching this and I'm glad I stumbled across it on my quest for "truth" in stories like these. (I am now binge reading the rest of your blogs as well.) Great work.
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