Nonfiction Night: The Paranormal Ranger

About this event

A group book discussion of former Navajo Ranger Stanley Milford Jr.'s 2024 chilling and clear-eyed memoir, The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator’s Search for the Unexplained , which shares details of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal and unexplained over the course of his illustrious career serving the Navajo Nation.

Nonfiction Night is a monthly book discussion group that reads nonfiction across a wide variety of subjects. No registration required, you're welcome to drop in. We also welcome readers who weren't able to finish the book –– as long as you're okay with spoilers.

Print copies of The Paranormal Ranger will be available at the Brighton Branch front desk while supplies last.

About the book:

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.

In The 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, Milford’s Native American worldview and investigative training provide a chilling, realistic perspective on what logic dictates should not be possible.

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