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Noah Voss
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Despite having been born and raised in Wisconsin, moving was not foreign to Noah as home was stretched over more than a dozen towns.
 
No matter the town, Noah could be found reading and re-reading every non-fiction based mystery book he could find. Later, Noah would attend lectures around the Midwest from respected authors, experts renowned for their decades of experimental research, and investigators with actual College Parapsychological Degrees. Taking his first EVP in 1986 at a purported 'haunted' home may have later led Noah to be best known for advancing the use of scientific equipment during investigations into reports of the paranormal. Years were spent interviewing practical experimentalists in countless accepted and conventional fields of study. These scientists would shape Noah's understanding and relationships with scientific equipment manufacturers. Collating his on the ground gritty-education into digestible web pages for the masses he hoped to make a quantifiable difference in the objective understanding of paranormal experiences. Through GetGhostGear.com, he would become the first in the world to exclusively offer paranormal investigating equipment for sale in a dedicated online 'Ghost Hunter' store. A feat replicated by others thousands of times around the world. Years later, it would be Noah's websites and regular appearances at industry conferences that drew a publishing company to him with a contract to write his first book.
 
At its peak, Noah's GetGhostGear.com Enterprises was receiving more than 1 million unique visitors a year with sales topping $100,000.oo. Noah has since moved on from updating his once vast network of online websites for more tangible endeavors.
 
Before all that could happen, the often painfully awkward grammar school would. Shunning the forced inclusion of a loser that competitive school sports demand, Noah sought out more solitary diversions. Spending weeks at a time in the North Cascades of Washington state introduced Noah to snowboarding near the activity's infancy. Returning to Wisconsin, the local ski hill refused him the use of their lifts with the newfangled board strapped to his feet. Undeterred, Noah would still pay the same fee to walk up so that he could slide down on his new-used snowboard. Ten years later, he would be hired by that same ski hill to develop their entire snowboard school program and train their instructors. Noah no longer takes his snowboard sailing 40' through the air or spends two days climbing a remote mountain just to slide back down; however, any random winter weeknight, he could be found taking some fast turns down a local slow hill.
 
Growing up in a family passionate about hockey, Noah was introduced to the newest craze picking up speed in the 1980s – inline skates. The newer technology was a way for hockey players to maintain their skills long after the snow melted. Eventually dropping hockey altogether, again not enjoying success if there was also to be a loser, Noah continued to inline skate. Years later, Noah would earn sponsorships from inline skating companies and even compete at an amateur-professional level in aggressive street freestyle competitions. A pastime that Noah still enjoys to this day whenever a slow weekend and enough pavement presents itself in front of him.
 
Noah's authored books on local murder mysteries, to that of the global UFO enigma, in addition to publishing over 4,000 paranormal pages online dating back to 1997. Noah has worked with such companies as the History Channel, the Sci-Fi Channel, The Discovery Channel, The Travel Channel, The National Geographic Channel, The CW Network, Triage Entertainment, and Lions Gate Films on projects ranging from UFO documentaries starring Dan Aykroyd to ABC's Scariest Places on Earth. Noah has appeared in print, on radio, or through televisions in over 40 countries. Name a 'ghost' show on TV, and he's likely turned them down – helping to keep him more infamous than famous.
 
While still in high school, Noah earned a scholarship to the prestigious Johnson and Wales University by entering their annual cooking competition. Eventually opting for a far more financially approachable option, Noah would later earn his degree in the applied sciences of culinary arts from the local Madison College. Noah quickly rose through the ranks of several kitchens in multiple food disciplines before stepping back from the industry as a head chef. While Noah no longer works in professional kitchens, he still enjoys culinary experimentation at home with seasonal, local, and organic ingredients.
 
Outside any four walls, Noah has innumerable hours in international wildernesses. From the soggy rot resulting rain forests of Hawaii and Washington States, the deserts of deadly snake-filled California, scorpion attacks in Arizona and interlingual treks through Mexico, climbing expeditions to Mt. Rainier following three fatalities that week, cutting his way through the jungles of Central America, active volcano summits such as Mt. St. Helens, down to the crocodile-infested everglades of Florida, the truly spooky Smokey Mountains to the East, into midnight rock slides of redwood forests to the west, boundary waters bigfoot attacks to the north and surfing with sharks to the south; have afforded Noah the opportunity to bring a rounded perspective to his future writing journeys.
 
Following the back roads since the 1990s has taken Noah through ghostly St. Augustine Florida, investigating the mysterious Winchester Mansion in California, going for the gone at The Bennington Black Hole in Vermont, haunted highways in Hawaii, looking for Bessie in Lake Erie, trying to get lost in The Bridgewater Triangle of Massachusetts, scanning for flying saucers on the summit of Mount St. Helens, werewolves in Wisconsin, ghosts of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay, the Historic Bullock Hotel of wild-west Deadwood, the mystery Paulding Lights of Michigan, looking for what went wrong in Salem Massachusetts, prying for Pepie in Lake Pepin on the Mississippi, flying through the Bermuda Triangle, Voodoo in Jamaica, UFOs in Mexico, searching for Sasquatch in British Columbia and moving through more than 1 million bodies in Montjuïc cemetery, Spain.
 
Most recently, Noah and his wife became their real-estate agents selling their big-city condo and negotiating the purchase of a small slice of rural life. In-between the day jobs, the newest adventure was to be 10 months of planning their new but modest home in the country after 5 years of scheming. Noah drew up architectural plans, hired some Amish craftsmen to help subsidize the hours required for them to spend at their day jobs while they finished building the log cabin home.  Taking the roll of general contractor Noah planned the entire project from what would become his 18 hour days clearing the land, excavating and every step along the way until he pulled the straps off of the final craned on pieces. They broke ground in September of 2018. Noah and his wife moved in full-time a crazy two months later. Small details such as electricity and bathroom plumbing wouldn't come for some time later. Despite two bouts of negative 35-degree temperatures over their first winter, they survived with a trusty wood-burning stove lighting the dark and warming the bones. But come the luxuries would as did 22 fruit trees, a few dozen fruiting bushes and nut trees over this last summer have, with any luck, set them up for a bountiful next few decades.

 

 
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