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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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...

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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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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...

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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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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...

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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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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...

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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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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!

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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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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!

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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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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!

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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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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!

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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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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!

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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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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!

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