User blog comment:Tatertot623/Evil Stan?/@comment-97.88.210.36-20120812173353/@comment-66.190.229.62-20130328001957

you can see the books are old, and in 3 it says it has been 6 years since the writer started researcing the mysteries, so if "he" is gideon, then either gideon time traveled, or he got on the writers trail when he was really young, as you can see the books have aged since being written.