Mystery on the Rocks

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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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 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.

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?'

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with over 20 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.