The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained
By (Author) Stanley Milford
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
William Morrow
14th February 2025
United States
General
Non Fiction
Memoirs
Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge
Indigenous peoples
History of the Americas
Social and cultural history
Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal
Local history
133.10973
Hardback
256
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 21mm
386g
A Navajo Rangers chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal and unexplained over the course of his illustrious career serving the Navajo Nation.
Stanley Milford, Jr., was raised with the inherent belief that the supernatural regularly touches our lives. Growing up between multiple worlds and cultures, as a Native American with parents and family of both Navajo and Cherokee descent, he was raised to respect his roots with a firm upbringing in traditions from both tribes.
That would serve him well when he joined the fabled Navajo Rangers, who are equal parts police officers, archeological conservationists, and historians, responsible for overseeing the massive 27,000-square-mile Navajo Nation. When Milford first became a ranger, he handled mundane, everyday cases such as cattle inspections and domestic disputes, but that quickly gave way to utterly bizarre and shockingly frequent cases of mysterious livestock mutilations, skinwalker and cryptid sightings, unidentified aerial phenomena, and malicious hauntings.
InThe Paranormal Ranger, Milford recounts all the stories from the logical, factual, and serious perspective of a law enforcement officer. Far from the tinfoil hat and conspiracy crowd, Milfords Native American worldview and investigative training provide a chilling, realistic perspective on what logic dictates should not be possible.
Stanley Milford, Jr., graduated from the United States Indian Police Academy at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, New Mexico, and worked continuously as a sworn law enforcement officer for over twenty-three years. He served as the delegated Chief Navajo Ranger for over two years through March of 2019. While with the Navajo Rangers, Stan oversaw a section called theSpecial Projects Unit (SPU), whose responsibilities included the investigation of cases that did not fit within everyday parameters of law enforcement or criminal investigation, many of which involved reports of theparanormal or supernatural.After leaving the Navajo Rangers, Stan served as the senior investigator for the Navajo Nations White Collar Crime Unit.