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\nAs a Native American with parents of both Navajo a nd Cherokee descent\, Stanley Milford\, Jr. grew up in a world where the s upernatural was both expected and taboo\, where shapeshifters roamed\, wit chcraft 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 &mdash\;a law enforcement branch of the Navajo Nation who are equal parts police officers\, archeological conservationists\, and historians&mdash\;t he paranormal became part of his job. Alongside addressing the mundane dut ies of overseeing the massive 27\,000-square-mile reservation\, Milford wa s assigned to utterly bizarre and shockingly frequent cases involving myst erious livestock mutilations\, skinwalker and Bigfoot sightings\, UFOs\, a nd malicious hauntings.
\nIn \;The Paranormal Ranger\, Milford recounts the stories of these cases from the clinical and deductiv e perspective of a law enforcement officer. Milford&rsquo\;s Native Americ an worldview and investigative training collide to provide an eerie accoun t of what logic dictates should not be possible.
\nStanley 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 f or 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 the Special Projects Unit (SPU)\, whose res ponsibilities included the investigation of cases that did not fit within everyday parameters of law enforcement or criminal investigation\, many of which involved reports of the \;paranormal or supernatural. After lea ving the Navajo Rangers\, Stan served as the senior investigator for the N avajo Nation&rsquo\;s White Collar Crime Unit. \;
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