WE ARE BACK! After a little hiatus, the Messer Brothers return to the podcasting world! This episode Craig & Nick look at a pretty recent local story involving a teenage girl, a murder, and a house party. Also, Craig & Nick continue the podcast tradition of interpreting the Top 5 list in different, yet sort of similar, ways.
Join the Messer Brothers (and Doug) as they interview an absolute star: Atticus Shaffer, famous from his roles in the ABC sitcom "The Middle" and Disney's animated series "The Lion Guard." The Messer Brothers dive into some exciting topics, and a special top 5 list, with their special guest. After listening, be sure to check out Atticus on his YouTube and Twitch vlogs! https://youtube.com/user/AtticusShafferVlog https://twitch.tv/atticusshaffervlog...
Craig & Nick are back for a spontaneous episode! The unexplained seems to be following them around, because both Messer Brothers have seen some unusual things in the past couple of weeks. Take a listen to find out about their latest close encounters.
The Messer Brothers welcome 2022 by discussing their goals and plans for the year. Their first goal of the year is to attempt to agree on what they're actually discussing! Join us for this look into the future!
We're getting back to the world of the mysterious and unsolved! Listen to find out what is coming your way in 2022 from Messer Brothers Presents!
While Nick is off doing one of his favorite things, Craig & Doug discuss the new Spider-Man movie, "No Way Home," and give us their ranking of all the live-action Spider-Man movies. Which movie will come out on top? Will it be one of the original trilogy with Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield's "Amazing Spider-Man" or one of the Tom Holland movies? Listen now and find out! And if you have NOT seen "No Way Home" yet and want to avoid spoilers, listen closely for Craig's spoiler warning! Don't sa...
It's a Messer Brothers Presents first! Craig is nowhere to be found as Nick takes charge in this episode all about Nick's top 5 things in life. Not top 5 songs or top 5 movies, but top 5 things in LIFE. So join Nick (with Doug along for the ride) for this episode unlike any other.
We're back for our first (and maybe only) Christmas special! Craig, Nick, and Doug get together once again to discuss their top Christmas movies and songs. Stick around until the end to find out which Christmas song should be buried in a vault 100 feet underground, never to be heard again.
In 1980, 32-year-old Granger Taylor, who was said to be a mechanical genius, disappeared, never to be seen again. He left behind a note for his parents which said he was leaving on a "42-month interstellar voyage" aboard an alien ship. The night of his disappearance, a huge storm passed through Taylor's hometown. In 1986, the remnants of a truck, thought to be Taylor's, were found on a nearby mountain. Did Granger Taylor die in the storm that destroyed his truck? Or did aliens really pick him up...
Craig & Nick create another on-the-fly tale (like the one heard in "The (Soon To Be) Famous Story of George Nelson"). The story this time follows a West Virginia coal miner. Also, the Messer Brothers reveal their top 10 non-mainstream albums.
Nick is back! And he returns just in time for a talk about the "Mandela Effect." The guys look at some of the commonly known examples of the Mandela Effect to see how their memories line up. Also, we reflect on a certain anniversary date that we sort of forgot about!
In 1960s West Virginia several people saw a strange, shadowy "something" fly over them. It was 7 feet tall, with 10-foot wings, and red eyes. It soon became known as "The Mothman," and was said to be a prophet of disaster. Some years later, there were several more sightings of a "mothman" in the Chicago area. What is this strange creature? Is it a very large bird? Or some weird hybrid of man and bird? Or maybe just a figment of someone's imagination? Join Craig & Doug as they discuss this un...
It was a totally normal day when Michael Edwin Hearon left his home to go mow the grass on his farm in Happy Valley, Tennessee. A totally normal day...until Michael drove by a neighbors house on his four-wheeler and was never seen again. The four-wheeler was found abandoned, and there was no sign of Michael. Join Craig & Doug as they examine the case.
It's time for something a little different! The Messer Brothers recap the wonderful year of 2020, and offer a fun and scary, and sorta outrageous, story. We won't try to explain it, you'll just have to listen to find out what it's all about!
The Messer Brothers continue the strange story of the Bell Witch, which terrorized the family of farmer John Bell, Sr. in Tennessee during the early 1800s. This unusual spirit slapped people around, sang hymns, carried on conversations with the Bell family, and is blamed for the death of at least one person. Listen to find out which badass U.S. president had his own encounter with the Bell Witch!
The Messers are back with season 3! The brothers dip into their all time favorite country songs and give you a taste of the world famous, terrifying "Bell Witch."
It's almost Thanksgiving, so today's episode is all about being thankful. While Nick is at work being thankful for a paycheck, Craig & Doug go through their top 10 lists of things they are thankful for. (In Doug's case, that would be a top 6 list. Apparently, Doug isn't very thankful.) We will get back to the unexplained & the mysterious soon...but for now, join us as we appreciate the good things in life that aren't so mysterious or unexplained. Happy Thanksgiving!
This is an episode like no other - literally. No mystery, nothing unexplained, no top 10. Today Craig explains the United States electoral process. It's not as simple as most people think, and there are a lot of ways that the outcome of an election can be decided. Craig makes it easy to understand and does so in a non-biased way. This is not about one candidate or the other, just good information about the way our country works. Give it a listen!
Nick is back again for a special episode! Craig, Nick, and Doug take a break from the missing and unexplained to look at one of the best decades in music history and reveal their top 10 songs of the 1980s. You've got to listen to this one! Hear Nick's renditions of his top heavy metal picks, discover what it is that Doug wants to know (and who he wants to show him), and find out what eighties song made Craig a karaoke celebrity.
In October 1978, twenty-year-old Australian pilot Frederick Valentich set out for a short flight along with coast in a rented plane. He never reached his destination. While communicating with an air traffic controller during the flight, Valentich claimed to see an unidentified aircraft, with a bright green light, darting all around him. His last communication: "It's not an aircraft." Witnesses on the coast claimed to have seen the lights of Valentich's plane in the distance with a long, green li...
In 1969, six-year-old Dennis Martin was on a hiking trip with his family and friends in the Great Smoky Mountains. One afternoon, he stepped away from his family for a few minutes...and was never seen again. In the two weeks that followed, the largest search ever conducted in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park took place. Over 1,400 people searched for Dennis, covering a 50-mile radius, but they never found a trace of him. The search teams included members of the National Guard, and, somewh...
In 1954, in the small town of Bladenboro, NC, numerous animals were found crushed, decapitated, and sometimes drained of blood. These strange animal deaths were attributed to "the Beast." What was the Beast? Some say it looked like a large cat-like creature, some thought it was a bear or a mountain lion. Whatever it was, as many as 1,000 people embarked on a hunt for it in January of 1954, and at least three people claimed to have killed it. Still, to this day no one is really sure what it actua...
In this bonus episode, Craig & Doug finish their discussion of alien abductions (which Nick didn't want to talk about!) with the Travis Walton abduction, which inspired a book and movie called "Fire In The Sky." In 1975, Walton and 6 other men encountered a glowing object in the woods. Walton moved closer to get a good look at it and was hit by a beam of light. His friends fled the scene, and when they returned later, Walton was gone. He later returned with a fantastic story of his experienc...
In 1976, four men went on a camping trip in the Allagash Wilderness of Maine, where they had an encounter with a strange bright light while night fishing on the lake. Twelve years later, two of the men began having disturbing nightmares in which they were being examined by inhuman beings in a strange place. All four men soon found they had repressed memories of an alien abduction. Were these men really abducted by aliens on that night? Was it a shared hallucination? Or did they come up with the ...
Nick is back! And in honor of the upcoming Labor Day weekend, Nick, Craig, and Doug are taking a little break from the missing and unexplained and talking travel! The guys talk about their top 5 trips of all time. Find out which Messer became a karaoke star in Myrtle Beach, who had a run-in with the Secret Service in Washington, DC, and the one trip that made all three guys' lists. Also, stay tuned for a quick preview of the next episode!
UFOs. Close encounters. Beings from beyond our galaxy. Are they out there? Are we the only intelligent life in the entire universe? Today, Craig & Doug (filling in for Nick again!) have an off the cuff discussion about ALIENS and our thoughts on whether or not they could exist. Craig reveals his potentially alien-related experiences (including a UFO). Also, we count down our top 10 restaurants.
Doug fills in for Nick as our look at the disappearance of Zebb Quinn continues. Some time after Zebb disappeared, his car was found with some unusual contents. Craig & Doug discuss this development, as well as several more developments in the case...many of which came more than 15 years after Zebb's disappearance. Is the case closed? Well...not quite. We also talk about some theories as to what really happened that night in January 2000, based on what we now know. Also, find out Craig's top...
Today, Doug the sound man joins the Messer Brothers as they look at the case of Zebb Quinn, who went missing in January of 2000 from Asheville, NC. Quinn and a friend/co-worker went out one night to look at a vehicle Quinn was thinking of purchasing. After a quick stop at a gas station, where the final images of Quinn were recorded on a store security camera, a strange sequence of events involving a page, a distressing phone call, and a minor vehicle accident took place. Quinn supposedly drove o...
On Valentine's Day 1971, a nursing student and a student at NC State went on a date...and were never seen alive again. Their bodies would be found almost two weeks later in the woods where they had been tortured and killed. Nearly 50 years later, their killer has never been found and the case is still open. The Messer Brothers talk about the details of the case. And on a lighter note, Craig reveals his top 10 summer movies, while Nick reveals his top 4 (Nick didn't do his homework).
Today the Messers pay tribute to the legendary Charlie Daniels, who passed away July 6th, with their lists of his top 10 songs. Also, Craig discusses a legend from the Cherokee tribe...the Moon-eyed people.
