Stanley Milford Jr.

at the community center

**Stanley Milford Jr.’s book The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator’s Search for the Unexplained rocketed onto the 2024 New York Times list of 22 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall. **

As a Native American with parents of both Navajo and Cherokee descent, Stanley Milford Jr. grew up in a world where the supernatural was both expected and taboo, where shapeshifters roamed, witchcraft was a thing to be feared, and children were taught not to whistle at night.  

In his youth, Milford never went looking for the paranormal, but it seemed to find him. When he joined the fabled Navajo Rangers – a law enforcement branch of the Navajo Nation who are equal parts police officers, archeological conservationists and historians – the paranormal became part of his job. Alongside addressing the everyday duties of overseeing the massive 27,000-square-mile reservation, Milford was assigned to utterly bizarre and shockingly frequent cases involving mysterious livestock mutilations, skinwalker and Bigfoot sightings, UFOs and hauntings. 

Drawing on his book, The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator’s Search for the Unexplained, Milford recounts the stories of these cases from the clinical and deductive perspective of a law enforcement officer. Milford’s Native American worldview and investigative training collide to provide an eerie account of what logic dictates should not be possible. 

Read more about Stanley Milford Jr. here

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