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Mystery on the Rocks

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" questionhanging overthem. So come in, pull up a chair, and let"s

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1:09:08

VHGuess #4 | This is Your La Bamba!

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2025/10/30

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!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

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47:23

Episode 198: The Bizarre Death of Katherine Briscoe

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2025/10/23

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?______An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with

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Episode 197: The Greenbrier Ghost

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2025/10/02

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

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1:05:22

Maniac | Sooz's One Hit Wonders #5

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2025/09/25

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!______An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with almost 20 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found

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45:29

Episode 196: The Trump is Dead Rumour

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2025/09/18

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 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

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43:17

Episode 195: The Phone Found in Fiji

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2025/07/24

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...______An exclusive

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41:30

Episode 194: The Big Grey Man [Guess the Mystery Part...

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2025/07/10

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

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35:24

Episode 193: The Campden Wonder [Guess the Mystery...

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2025/07/03

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 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

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35:01

Episode 192: The Kentucky Meat Shower [Guess the...

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2025/06/26

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!______An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with over 10

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1:18:46

The Ken Brennan Trilogy #3 - Shootout at Spanky's...

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2025/06/19

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

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1:17:48

The Ken Brennan Trilogy #2 - The Vanishing Blonde and...

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2025/06/12

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

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52:07

The Ken Brennan Trilogy #1 - The Body in Room 348...

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2025/06/05

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.______All manner of bonus extra stuff can be found over at

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59:24

Episode 191: The Mysterious Lori Erica Ruff

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2025/05/29

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?______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

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43:47

Episode 190: The Fate of the Flower Doctor

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2025/05/15

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 book?______An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with 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

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45:44

Episode 189: Does the Pope Have a Time Machine?

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2025/05/08

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 out the answer to the question 'does the Pope have a time machine?'______An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with over 20 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our

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58:51

You Get What You Give | Sooz's One Hit Wonders #4

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2025/05/01

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 zeitgeist plus a more surprising subsequent career than you may expect, this is the story of New Radicals!______An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with 20 minutes of bonus extra chat

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46:50

Episode 188: The Severed Feet of the Salish Sea

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2025/04/24

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 Conclave on physical media in 2025!? The answers lie within...______An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with nearly 20 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!Extended

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1:08:35

Episode 187: What Happened at the Ole Miss Riot?

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2025/04/17

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 tomatoes!______An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with 20 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!Extended episodes drop over there 3 days early so if you enjoy Mystery

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1:17:26

VHGuess #3 | Urgh, It's Not Stripes Is It?

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2025/04/10

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 extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!Extended episodes drop over there 3 days early so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a

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49:58

Episode 186: The World's First Aerial Murder?

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2025/04/03

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 the wings of his plane snapped off and crashed into the ground, killing both him and his passenger.So was it sabotage? Or faulty workmanship? Nobody really knows to this day...______An exclusive extended

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