This Unsolved Mysteries Season 3 Episode 5 recap for the episode titled “Paranormal Rangers” contains spoilers.
The most compelling aspect of “Paranormal Rangers” is the cultural specificity. It offers a new angle on the usual accounts of supernatural phenomena by filtering them through the lens of people who already accept them, and can draw parallels between deeply held beliefs and myths and what most people would consider UFOs or monsters. But he doesn’t really question this angle, rather leaving it aside in favor of a buffet of wacky ideas that plays like a sampling of a season of X files.
Unsolved Mysteries Season 3 Episode 5 Recap
This comparison doesn’t just apply to outline either. Retired Navajo Ranger Stanley Milford Jr. and his partner Jonathan Redbird Dover explicitly imagined themselves as Mulder and Scully as their core duties around the Navajo Reservation turned to investigating supernatural phenomena, including Bigfoot sightings and UFOs, and terrifying shape-shifting creatures known as skin walkers.
This approach does the “Paranormal Rangers” no favors. While previous episodes this season have focused on a single event to provide as much depth as possible in a single episode, this one provides cursory looks at several different cases, without the time or space to really challenge the story. one of the claims. As Unsolved mysteries season 3, episode 2it applies a veneer of respectability through its seemingly rational guiding figures, but an overabundance of testimonials and the blind acceptance of some pretty incredible claims means it’s hard to take the news stories seriously.
Milford and Dover found themselves responsible for these investigations as no official channel was available, meaning the allegations were largely ignored and those affected by them were left to rot. But it sounds, to me at least, like a punishment rather than a legitimate responsibility, taken seriously by none other than Milford and Dover themselves and the people they spoke to, many of whom couldn’t be considered credible.
Seems like an insurmountable task, at least in part because, as explained, Navajos tend to believe it all anyway, so Bigfoot pops out of the ground and knocks on the door, or UFOs streak across the sky, to hardly registers as remarkable. As mentioned above, however, “Paranormal Rangers” doesn’t really interrogate that angle and largely expects us to feel exactly the same. Only a first-hand account of an encounter with what the Navajos call a Skinwalker seems particularly intriguing, but even then only because it’s not as worn-out an idea as something like Bigfoot.
I’m just not buying it if we’re being frank, and the scattershot approach didn’t even give me reason to consider doing so. There’s a decent level of entertainment here, and I enjoyed the Navajo reservation’s unusual setting and perspective. But let’s just say my skeptical self isn’t convinced by any of the reports, and I can’t imagine anyone else buying into it either – unless, of course, they always bought into it in the first place. , which is sort of the problem.
Further reading:
- Unsolved mysteries summary of season 3, episode 4.
- Unsolved mysteries summary of season 3, episode 6.
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