Book Review - The Paranormal Ranger
Alright, it’s been a while since I’ve reviewed a book on the blog so here I am. This latest book grabbed my attention when I came into the library lobby. I usually don’t go to the books they display but I’ve been into this subject a lot more recently due to things I’ve encountered recently in my own life that I’m curious about. I’m also a fan of odd and paranormal things in general, including the CanAm Missing Project and the 411 Missing series on YouTube.
In this book, by Stanley Milford Jr. he talks about growing up in two worlds, one of America and the other The Navajo Nation. The unique combination of cultures this brought into his life as well as his early struggles. Also his paranormal experiences came on at an early age. Mysterious things turning themselves on such as a stovetop which would take a good amount of energy to turn on.
Also, odd apports such as material things showing up out of thin air such as a satanic book on a shelf.
When he gets into his late teens or early twenties he gives an old man a ride home from the drive-in movies. Maximum Overdrive out of all of them. He drops the guy off seemingly in the middle of nowhere and moments later, when he’s driving down the desert highway, he spots an animalistic creature running up to his car doing about 60 miles per hour. It’s a wolf-like creature with fangs and the whole nine-yards. It’s like something from an 80’s werewolf film. Eventually, it leaves him alone but the whole book has bits and parts of that kind of stuff in it.
Throughout the book there are neat little Navajo stories about creation and how humans came to be. Of course much of the history is very cryptic. I guess you could try to break down the symbolism of it but a lot of it was too huge to take literally and I couldn’t put it together with the context of the time. I’m sure some Navajo scribes could break down what was meant. It’s easy to get lost in it. Again, these chapters were nice little breaks in the reading. It helped absorb the information between chapters.
I really liked the pictures included in the middle of the book. They’re a series of pictures of Stanley on patrol, Bigfoot tracks & plasters, Bigfoot hair, UFO lights in the sky, his sketches of the wolf creature that chased him (he’s a good artist), Bigfoot, a Grey alien, American coins that fell out of the air and a knife that came out of its butcher block and shot into a grapefruit across the kitchen.
He discusses the interviews he had with an old man and his dog who witnessed a hovering spacecraft in his backyard as well as aliens. The man’s dog unfortunately passes afterwards. I’ve heard this story before so this must’ve been the origin of it. He goes into the Satan Butte Phenomena in Navajo County in Arizona. It’s the place where there’s that flat seemingly cut-off mountaintop as seen in the movie Close Encounters of The Third Kind. He talks about skinwalker activity there and a man who’s been cursed by one which was fascinating.
In conclusion, it’s an amazing book from someone that’s lived the disciplined life of a Navajo Ranger. He could be trying to sell books but I really doubt it. He’s a very credible source and has lived a very transparent and earnest life. The book goes a little off topic of the paranormal when he talks about some of the drug raids and a murdering militia but it gets back on board with the spooky stuff again.
I recommend it, it’s full of authentic stories and a point-of-view telling of his life growing up as a Navajo and as an American Ranger. My hats off to his service. Being a Ranger covers a lot of disciplines and can be very dangerous. What an interesting life he has led so far and what an eye-opener his paranormal interactions have been.
Check out my video version of the review here:
https://youtu.be/LU82GI3YitU?si=8O0C9t3DdU9lvwYu
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