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Mystery on the Rocks
Chris Stokes, Masud Milas & Sooz Kempner
227 episodes
1 week ago

Hi there! We are Mystery on the Rocks, a comedy cocktail mystery podcast with award-winning comedians Sooz Kempner, Masud Milas and Chris Stokes ham-fistedly trying to solve real-life mysteries over cocktails.


Sometimes we're joined by a special guest, sometimes it's just the three of us being very silly indeed.


From true crime and bizarre occurrences to X-Files and the paranormal, all of the cases have a whodunnit or 'WTF happened' question hanging over them. So come in, pull up a chair, and let's crack this case!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hi there! We are Mystery on the Rocks, a comedy cocktail mystery podcast with award-winning comedians Sooz Kempner, Masud Milas and Chris Stokes ham-fistedly trying to solve real-life mysteries over cocktails.


Sometimes we're joined by a special guest, sometimes it's just the three of us being very silly indeed.


From true crime and bizarre occurrences to X-Files and the paranormal, all of the cases have a whodunnit or 'WTF happened' question hanging over them. So come in, pull up a chair, and let's crack this case!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Mystery on the Rocks
VHGuess #5 | A Bag of Twos | NEW YEAR SPECIAL

Happy New Year you filthy animals! Have the best day, the best year and what better way to see in 2026 than by listening to us play what could be argued to be the toughest bundle of VHSes Sooz has ever tasked us with guessing!

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 2-3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess...


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1 week ago
1 hour 19 minutes 15 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
There's No One Quite Like Grandma | Sooz's One Hit Wonders #6 | CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

It's the Mystery on the Rocks Christmas Special and Sooz is back with a festive edition of her occasional One Hit Wonders series, this time looking at the Christmas No. 1 of 1980 - There's No One Quite Like Grandma by St. Winifred's School Choir.


And along the way we learn about how the Christmas Number One even became a thing in the UK.


Merry Christmas all!

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with 15 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 2-3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess...


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2 weeks ago
55 minutes 41 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Episode 202: The Kentucky Fried Chicken Murders

In 1983, 5 KFC employees in Kilgore, Texas were abducted by armed robbers and executed in a truly horrific crime. A crime which went unsolved for over 2 decades, before 2 arrests were made. However, the case continued to confound investigators with DNA evidence of a third perpetrator they could not identify...


And the latest development is startingly recent.

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with almost 40 minutes of bonus extra chat about all manner of things including school playground game naming conventions, the 1968 film 'Greetings' and dog diarrhoea can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3-7 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess...


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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4 weeks ago
43 minutes 4 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Episode 201: The Burger Chef Murders

On November 17th 1978 something horrific happened to 4 employees finishing their shift at the Burger Chef restaurant in Speedway, Indiana.


A robbery or pre-meditated murder? And just how badly did the police screw up this time?

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with almost 20 minutes of bonus extra chat about all manner of things can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3-7 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess...


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1 month ago
54 minutes 38 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Patting Ourselves on the Back for 200

Last week's episode was our 200th 'proper' one. Yes, the counting got weird at some point so we're not entirely sure but the current numbering convention has Dr No Legs as our 200th episode.


So we had a little relax and did a chilled hostful episode like boardgames on the last day of term.

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with almost 15 minutes of bonus extra chat about all manner of things can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3-7 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess...


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1 month ago
42 minutes 38 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Episode 200: Dr. No Legs

This is the story of how a 21st Century Cornish surgeon had his legs amputated below the knees... But went to jail for it.


Masud couldn't join us for this one so join Chris and Sooz as they simultaneously laugh at an amputee while kink-shaming him. But don't worry, in as woke a way as possible.

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with almost 20 minutes of bonus extra chat about all manner of things, including but not limited to the death of Dick Cheney, can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3-7 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess...


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1 month ago
43 minutes 39 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Episode 199: The Jack Wheeler Mystery

Jack Wheeler, a US Army veteran and aide to several US Presidential administrations, was found dead in mysterious circumstances on New Year's Eve 2010.


We piece together his strange last days to see if there's even a smidgen of a clue as to what happened...

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with almost 20 minutes of bonus extra chat about all manner of things, including but not limited to pets who have pets, can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess...


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1 month ago
42 minutes 56 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
VHGuess #4 | This is Your La Bamba!

It's another edition of our favourite game VHGuess! Which videos are in the bundle this time? Who will win? And was Masud Googling in the toilet?


Find out now!

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with over 30 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess where Sooz finds a bundle of VHS tapes on eBay and Chris and Masud have to guess which videos...


You can follow us on Bluesky and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2 months ago
1 hour 9 minutes 8 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Episode 198: The Bizarre Death of Katherine Briscoe

How can a woman be fatally shot in the chest in a house no killer could have gotten in or out of, with no murder weapon left behind at the scene?


Katherine Briscoe's 1934 death at her Baltimore home has all the makings of a classic locked room murder. So how could it have been done, how did her death lead to the development of a new weapon and what's all this got to do with a renowned physicist by the name of Robert Williams Wood?

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with almost 25 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess...


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2 months ago
47 minutes 23 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Episode 197: The Greenbrier Ghost

For the first time in a long time we got a ghost case!


In 1897, Elva Zona Heaster Shue was found dead at home, the coroner ultimately concluding a natural death of heart disease. But then Elva's ghost visits her mother to divulge there's more to her death than meets the eye.


This turns out to be true. Not only that, the ghost was able to divulge specific details so either her mother knew impossible information about her daughter's death OR her ghost really did come back to say how she died. Either way it's a mystery...

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with almost 25 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess...


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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3 months ago
44 minutes 29 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Maniac | Sooz's One Hit Wonders #5

Sooz's One Hit Wonders series returns with a look at Michael Sembello's 1983 megahit 'Maniac'.


But what's Michael's story? Why did he not follow up 'Maniac' with more superhits, where else might you have heard him, what are the song's original, unused lyrics and which ads do Masud and Chris come up against on YouTube?


Find out as Sooz deep-dives us headfirst into another One Hit Wonder!

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with almost 20 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 2-3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess...


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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3 months ago
1 hour 5 minutes 22 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Episode 196: The Trump is Dead Rumour

Our summer holidays are over and bringing us back to school, Sooz talks us through the recent rumours of Trump being dead. Where did they come from, was there ANY truth to them whatsoever (even just a kernel) and just what is the mystery of the White House windows...?

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with almost 30 minutes of bonus extra chat about things like bad magic, awful heckles, even worse jokes and John Travolta's 2000 megaflop Battlefield Earth can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess...


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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3 months ago
45 minutes 29 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Episode 195: The Phone Found in Fiji

In our first recording together we take a look at a mystery Chris stumbled upon when compiling mysteries for our very first season! Since then, there have been developments in the case...


This is the story of a mobile phone found in Fiji in the back of a taxi in 2014 which contained a disturbing video of four men being shot dead in the middle of the ocean. Despite video evidence of the crime existing, nobody knew who had done it, where they had done or even who they had killed...

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with almost 30 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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5 months ago
43 minutes 17 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Episode 194: The Big Grey Man [Guess the Mystery Part III]

The third and final instalment in our current Guess the Mystery trilogy as Sooz and Masud have to guess the mystery from the title alone, and this week it's the Big Grey Man...


A myth of Scottish folklore of a tall grey spectral presence which roams the Cairngorms OR John Major challenging people to feel his muscles in the streets of Preston? Listen to find out all this and more!


Like how does Masud make his perfect Martini? Just what is a city? And just how much can Sooz lift?


All will be revealed...

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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6 months ago
41 minutes 30 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Episode 193: The Campden Wonder [Guess the Mystery Part II]

The second in our Guess the Mystery miniseries sees Sooz and Masud having to work out what the heck The Campden Wonder is.


Is it a batshit insane 1660 case of robbery, murder and coming back from the dead or is it the theft of a chandelier from a pioneering gay bar? Listen to find out!

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with 5 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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6 months ago
35 minutes 24 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Episode 192: The Kentucky Meat Shower [Guess the Mystery Part I]

With Chris away on holiday, Sooz and Masud attempt to guess the mystery from the name alone. How close do they get? Well you'll be surprised!


Chris certainly was...


In Bath County, Kentucky in 1876 chunks of red meat fall from the sky. What are they? How did they fall from the sky? Despite science coming on leaps and bounds since then, there's still no real robust logical explanation, though there are many, many theories!

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with over 10 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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6 months ago
35 minutes 1 second

Mystery on the Rocks
The Ken Brennan Trilogy #3 - Shootout at Spanky's [RE-RELEASE]

Our revisiting of our Ken Brennan trilogy comes to a close.


December 2008 in Jackson, Tennessee bar owner and sheriff's deputy Euhommie Bond is tragically killed in a shootout outside his bar and grill, Spanky's. With so much gunfire concentrated in such a short space of time, finding out who killed him is no mean feat, one main reason why the police investigation stalls so dramatically...


And why is the family so reluctant to support his beloved aunt when she tries to get the case looked into?

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Loads of bonus extra stuff can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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6 months ago
1 hour 18 minutes 46 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
The Ken Brennan Trilogy #2 - The Vanishing Blonde and the Mercury Man [RE-RELEASE]

It's the second in our Ken Brennan Trilogy and come with us to Florida in 2005 as we look at how a woman got out of a hotel she couldn't possibly have left without being seen and ended up 8 miles away and left for dead. What happened to her, who did it and just who on Earth is the Mercury Man and might he be the key to the whole affair?


This case, along with the others in the Ken Brennan Trilogy, is covered extensively in (so this episode owes a huge debt to) Mark Bowden's excellent Vanity Fair article The Case of the Vanishing Blonde so be sure to take a look after you've finished listening!

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Loads of bonus extra stuff can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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7 months ago
1 hour 17 minutes 48 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
The Ken Brennan Trilogy #1 - The Body in Room 348 [RE-RELEASE]

Revisiting our Ken Brennan trilogy over the next 3 weeks, we begin with our first Ken episode from way back in January 2020 as we meet Ken solving the bizarre mystery of Greg Fleniken, who was found dead in his hotel room, locked from the inside, with internal injuries that were similar to having been pulverised by a car.


So what the hell happened? Ken Brennan manages to unravel the whole thing and make us fall in love with him in the process.

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All manner of bonus extra stuff can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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7 months ago
52 minutes 7 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks
Episode 191: The Mysterious Lori Erica Ruff

This week's episode is the story of Lori Erica Ruff, who took her own life in 2010. She was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in her car, parked on her estranged in-laws' driveway.


Erratic behaviour following the separation from her husband is only the beginning as the true nature of Lori is slowly uncovered.


So who was she really?

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with almost 25 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!


Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!


Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.


You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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7 months ago
59 minutes 24 seconds

Mystery on the Rocks

Hi there! We are Mystery on the Rocks, a comedy cocktail mystery podcast with award-winning comedians Sooz Kempner, Masud Milas and Chris Stokes ham-fistedly trying to solve real-life mysteries over cocktails.


Sometimes we're joined by a special guest, sometimes it's just the three of us being very silly indeed.


From true crime and bizarre occurrences to X-Files and the paranormal, all of the cases have a whodunnit or 'WTF happened' question hanging over them. So come in, pull up a chair, and let's crack this case!


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