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Mystery on the Rocks
by Chris Stokes, Masud Milas & Sooz Kempner
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.
Episodes
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Is It The Three Tenors? | VHGuess #6
Our favourite game returns! Sooz treats us to another bundle of VHS tapes found on eBay as Masud and Chris must guess which videos lie within by asking the right questions and strategically using three lifelines along the way. Does Chris retain his undefeated streak? Or does Masud run away with…
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Episode 216: Why Didn't Football Come Home in 2006? | World Cup Special
Enjoy this a day earlier than usual since England are playing their first game of this World Cup TODAY because - that's right - the World Cup is here and, with it, Sooz's impassioned feature-length deep-dive into the psychological issues of England's Golden Generation and the impact it had on…
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Chantilly Lace | Sooz's One Hit Wonders #7
Sooz's One Hit Wonders are back and this time she teaches us all about The Big Bopper's 1958 smash hit Chantilly Lace. Who was Mr Bopper? And is this the most tragic of the One Hit Wonders so far? ______ An exclusive extended, ad-free video version of this episode with bonus extra chat can be…
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Episode 215: The Wall Street Crash
Sooz takes the lead for the foreseeable and kicks off our post-MKUltra season with a super incisive look at the events of one of the 20th Century's most defining incidents. What happened, what caused it and just what the hell is Groucho Marx doing here? Just some of the questions answered in…
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Mystery on the Rocks Does MK Ultra! | Special Bumper Episode
From 1953 to 1973, the CIA carried out a massive operation, the ripples of which are still felt today and the extent of which is, frankly, unthinkable. Coming as a reaction to the Nuremberg trials at the end of World War 2, MK Ultra contained over 100 subprojects which took in drug smuggling and...
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Episode 214: MK Ultra Part X - Chasing Justice
Our MK Ultra series comes to a close with a look at ongoing court cases, alleged subjects and attempts to seek justice over the years. While justice is yet to be served, could a current court case offer some light at the end of the tunnel? ______ An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this...
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Episode 213: MK Ultra Part IX - The Mosaic
In 1973, director of the CIA Richard Helms orders all records of MKUltra destroyed and the project is wound down. Nonetheless, thanks to a report by the New York Times, a couple of years later some of what the CIA got up to came to light, kickstarting a slow trickle of information being exposed…
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Episode 212: MK Ultra Part VIII - Midnight Climax
Our MK Ultra series continues with one of the more eccentric subprojects... Known as Operation Midnight Climax, the lengths the CIA begin to go to when dosing unsuspecting American citizens with various drugs reach new, seedy lows... ______ An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode...
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Episode 211: MK Ultra Part VII - MK Chickwit
This chapter of our ongoing MK Ultra series is all about MK CHICKWIT! Not only the most fun-named of the MK Ultra subprojects, but also what sounds like the most fun full stop. Spy games! Espionage! Gap year! And did MK Chickwit change the 20th Century more than we might have thought? ______ An...
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Members' Lounge Open Day 2
Owing to lots of stupid stuff, our MK Ultra series will be back next week with Part 7 but for this week please enjoy an excerpt from a recent Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full 97 minute bumper bonus episode over on our Patreon, where episodes drop a week early in extended,...
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Episode 210: MK Ultra Part VI - Harris Isbell & Subproject 27
When MK Ultra was given the greenlight, Sidney Gottlieb enlisted Donald Ewen Cameron (Part IV's hypocritical psychiatrist) and renowned pharmacologist Harris Isbell, director of research at Addiction Research Center. Having already studied the effects of certain drugs, Isbell was clearly the…
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Episode 209: MK Ultra Part V - Big Dog Hess
The episode Sooz has been waiting for! For the fifth instalment of our MK Ultra series we sidestep ever so slightly to take a look at the life of prominent Nazi Rudolf Hess and how it intersected with (and maybe even inspired) the CIA's diabolical experiments of the 1950s and 60s. But in addition...
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Episode 208: MK Ultra Part IV - The Hypocritical Psychiatrist
Part 4 of our MK Ultra series introduces us to Donald Ewen Cameron, a psychiatrist of world renown whom Sidney Gottlieb recruited to MK Ultra. Born in Scotland, Cameron made huge waves in setting up mental health services in Canada before settling in America where he found himself enlisted to...
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Episode 207: MK Ultra Part III - The Bacteriologist and the Tennis Pro
Our trawl through the CIA's appalling MK Ultra project takes in the stories of two men - bacteriologist Frank Olson and professional tennis player Harold Blauer. Both men were born in 1910 and both died in 1953. But how and why? And what are their links to our ongoing story? ______ An exclusive...
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Episode 206: MK Ultra Part II - Plötner & Pash
This week we chart the shifting from Project Artichoke to MK Ultra following the appointment of Allen Dulles to Director of Central Intelligence and his hiring of Sidney Gottlieb to bring da scienz to Project Artichoke. Alongside these two rotten eggs, we discuss the very tangible link from the...
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Episode 205: MK Ultra Part I - Bluebirds & Artichokes
This week we begin a brand new series looking at something we've been wanting to cover on the show for a long, long time... Project MK Ultra! One of the most heinous operations the CIA ever did... THAT WE KNOW OF, RIGHT GUYS? We lay out a broad overview of what MK Ultra actually was, discuss the...
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Episode 204: The Strange Tale of Emilie Sagee - Part II
This week's episode is, as threatened, us attempting a commentary. Specifically, a commentary on the 1977 'Leap in the Dark' episode called 'The Fetch' which claims to dramatise the Emilie Sagee story we covered last week. Does it do the tale justice? And how many famous faces can we spot in it?…
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Episode 203: The Strange Tale of Emilie Sagee - Part I
This week we're looking at the creepy story of schoolteacher Emilie Sagee who, while teaching in a school in what is now Latvia in the mid-19th century, became the centre of a terrifying ghost story. Seemingly able to be in two different places at once, stories of Emilie soon spread around the...
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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! ______ An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode can be...
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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...
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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…
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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? ______ An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with...
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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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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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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... ______ An exclusive extended, ad-free...
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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! ______ An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with over 30 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...? ______ An exclusive…
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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...
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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...
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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! ______ An...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Episode 190: The Fate of the Flower Doctor
This week's episode is the story of Charles Budd Robinson - a botanist from Canada who went missing while on an expedition to an Indonesian island in December 1913 never to be seen again... So what happened? Does the answer lie in Kew Gardens? And would he have survived if he'd packed his phrase...
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Episode 189: Does the Pope Have a Time Machine?
Coinciding with the papal conclave of 2025 as cardinals reverently decide who will be the new Pope, we dive into a pervading mystery that the Vatican once had (and possibly still has) its hands on a working time machine... A story which takes in Nobel Prize winners and Nazi scientists, let's find...
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You Get What You Give | Sooz's One Hit Wonders #4
In the latest in our Sooz's One Hit Wonders series, we are transported to 1998 and take a look at a serious contender for song of the 90s as we learn all about what led to (and came from) the utter smash hit You Get What You Give... Dreadful solo albums, a right-place-right-time capturing of the...
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Episode 188: The Severed Feet of the Salish Sea
This week we uncover Sooz's fear of the ocean as we discuss the bizarre phenomenon of loads of severed feet washing up at various points along the British Columbia and Washington State coast... Just why did the amount increase between 2007 and 2018? And, more importantly, why does Chris now own...
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Episode 187: What Happened at the Ole Miss Riot?
This week's episode is the story of (among others) Paul Guihard, Ray Gunther and James Meredith, whose lives intersect and, in two of their cases, come to an end at the fateful Ole Miss Riot of 1962 in Mississippi. So what happened? And boy had you better not mention to Masud that you don't like...
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VHGuess #3 | Urgh, It's Not Stripes Is It?
Our favourite game is back this week and has some of the very best and some of the very worst guesses Chris and Masud have made. And it may also be the closes game yet PLUS Sooz goes rogue with awarding points. ______ An exclusive extended version of this episode with almost 20 minutes of bonus...
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Episode 186: The World's First Aerial Murder?
This week we take a look at possibly the world's first aerial murder, which is certainly what it was called in newspapers at the time. In 1923, daredevil BH DeLay was putting on an extraordinary aerial display of aviation stunts - something he had made a great living doing in the movies - when…
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Episode 185: Robert Johnson & The Devil at the Crossroads
While you may be forgiven for thinking that Robert Johnson is our guest for an episode about the devil at a crossroads, don't let the naming convention fool you. This is the tale of pioneering musician Robert Johnson who is simultaneously one of the most influential musicians of the 20th Century...
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The One & Only | Sooz's One Hit Wonders #3
The next in Sooz's series of the stories behind some of the biggest one-hit wonders. This week, she walks us through Chesney Hawke's 1991 mega-hit 'The One & Only' while we of course manage to get in a Jurassic Park reference and Masud learns about the chain of shops John Menzies... ______ An...
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Episode 184: The Calvine Sighting
This week's episode is the twisty story of what is considered to be the greatest photo ever taken of a UFO... In August 1990, two men hiking near the Scottish hamlet of Calvine saw a strange craft hover silently in the sky, be approached by a Harrier jet and then fly away vertically. Stranger…
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Spoilerific Oscars Chat
This week's episode is a relaxed chat about this year's Best Picture nominees just ahead of the Oscars ceremony. We give our opinions (with SPOILERS) on those we've seen plus Chris shares some potentially controversial opinions about Dune! ________ An exclusive extended version of this episode…
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Episode 183: The Rey Rivera Mystery
This week's episode is the bizarre story of Rey Rivera, who was missing for 8 days in 2006 before turning up dead in the strangest of circumstances, circumstances which were eventually ruled a suicide. Except it would have been physically impossible for Rey to have taken his own life in this…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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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