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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