The Navajo Rangers patrol and protect the 27,000-square-mile reservation spanning portions of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. In 2000, Stanley Milford Jr. and Jonathan Redbird Dover — whose job descriptions typically included land protection, search and rescue and evacuations — received a new, intriguing assignment: investigating reports of paranormal activity on the Navajo Nation. 

In what’s described as “the real-life X-Files,” Milford and Dover started looking into some of the most mysterious and terrifying phenomena in Navajo history, starting with dozens of Bigfoot sightings. Then the pair realized something unsettling: As Bigfoot sightings increased in regularity, so did UFO sightings. Finally, after hearing reports about a skinwalker — a harmful shape-shifting witch that can take the form of any animal — Milford and Dover found disturbing evidence that raised more questions than answers. During 10 years of conducting paranormal investigations, the pair face their fears in their relentless pursuit of the truth. What do these strange sightings on the Navajo reservation ultimately reveal? 

Jonathan Witnesses An Orb | Unsolved Mysteries V3E5The former ranger recalls a night he can't forget.

Jonathan Redbird Dover is not merely an investigator — he actually witnessed a UFO with his grandparents when he was young. Here, he describes what he saw then. 

Evidence of Bigfoot

When hundreds of witnesses reported seeing Bigfoot on the reservation, each giving remarkably similar descriptions, Milford and Dover began a thorough investigation, measuring footprints and reviewing surveillance videos. Still, the answers remain elusive. What is this creature that so many people have seen, but no one has been able to identify? 

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See more bonus material from “Paranormal Rangers,” including terrifying audio clips of what resident Brenda Harris believes to be the calls of Bigfoot in the New Mexico forest. 

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