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The paranormal ranger : a Navajo investigator's search for the unexplained / Stanley Milford Jr..

Summary:

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 always 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 mundane 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 malicious hauntings. In The Paranormal Ranger, 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780063371057
ISBN: 0063371057
Physical Description: viii, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The First World -- A Childhood Between Two Worlds -- The Second World -- A Navajo Ranger in the Making -- The Third World -- Manhunt in the Desert -- The Origin of Monsters -- The Paranormal Rangers -- The Fourth World -- The San Juan River Bigfoot -- Y©♭'iitsoh and the Hero Twins -- Cryptids, Curses, and Cons -- The Old Man and the UFO -- The Satan Butte Phenomena -- The Coming of Death -- The Window Rock Haunting -- Theories of a Navajo Ranger.