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...
Jun 26, 2025•35 min•Season 7Ep. 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 into? ...
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 19 min
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 ...
Jun 12, 2025•1 hr 18 min
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 ...
Jun 05, 2025•52 min
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 ...
May 29, 2025•59 min•Season 7Ep. 18
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 ...
May 15, 2025•44 min•Season 7Ep. 17
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 Patreo...
May 08, 2025•46 min•Season 7Ep. 16
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 cha...
May 01, 2025•59 min
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 ! E...
Apr 24, 2025•47 min•Season 7Ep. 15
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 enj...
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 7Ep. 14
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 alre...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 17 min
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 extende...
Apr 03, 2025•50 min•Season 7Ep. 13
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 AND a complete mystery... Perhaps the first member of the 27 Club, the legend that he sold his soul to the Devil is one of the most enduring things about him but there are so many mysteries to solve when...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Season 7Ep. 12
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 exclusive extended version of this episode with almost 30 minutes of 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 the...
Mar 13, 2025•53 min
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 than this sighting, though, is the story of the photograph they took and why it wasn't seen for almost 30 years... Also includes a bit of extra chat about the Loch Ness Monster and, of course, Jurassic Park...
Mar 06, 2025•58 min•Season 7Ep. 11
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 with 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 ...
Mar 01, 2025•1 hr 2 min
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 way... An exclusive extended version of this episode with almost 40 minutes of extra chat can be found over at our Patreon ! Extended episodes drop over there 3 days early so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rock...
Feb 20, 2025•47 min•Season 7Ep. 10
A live edition of our favourite game! And joining us in an echoey room to an intimate crowd is returning friend of the show and host of the fantastic Evil Men podcast, Michael Balazo! Who will win this round and which VHS treasure will be unearthed? An extended version of this episode, along with a huge back catalogue of exclusive bonus content such as videos, outtakes, minisodes and bonus episodes, can be found at our Patreon ! Want early access to episodes THREE whole days before anyone else a...
Feb 13, 2025•45 min
Following the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD Pompeii was devastated by an intense burst of intense heat, smoke and ash, leaving many of the thousands of people killed preserved in their final positions. Cue much sniggering when one man was discovered in the position of apparently pleasuring himself. But was that really what he was doing? If you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over to support us on Patreon where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive...
Jan 30, 2025•40 min•Season 7Ep. 9
This week we take a look at the 1994 murder of former marine David Cox. David had been missing for 3 months when his body was found next to a river in Massachusetts, killed execution style with 4 bullet wounds. But what possible motive could there have been? His killer has never been discovered but his past may be more well known than first appears... Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast s...
Jan 23, 2025•51 min•Season 7Ep. 8
The next episode in our occasional new series called Sooz Kempner's One Hit Wonders where Sooz takes us through the story of some of the very best (and worst) one hit wonders. Where are they now? Why did their one hit hit so hard and then other songs fail to replicate the success? For this second episode, Sooz tells us the brilliant story of Billy Paul and his soul hit 'Me & Mrs Jones', as well as educating us on his follow-up single which failed to replicate its predecessor's success despit...
Jan 16, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Two creepy (and possibly) connected crimes this week and we take a look at the Cape Intruder, a man whose identity remains a mystery, who broke into people's houses in Cape Elizabeth, Maine in 2005 to... Watch them sleep. Upon his prey awaking, he would bolt out of the house and evade capture completely. This photofit was issued to help identify the Cape Intruder, to no avail. We then fast forward 3 years when similar reports occurred in Nova Scotia's Halifax. Could it be the same intruder? And ...
Jan 09, 2025•56 min•Season 7Ep. 7
Happy New Year! The second in our festive episodes is a brief curio - in the English town of Warminster at Christmastime in 1964, plenty of independent witnesses experienced a bizarre wave of sonic attacks, for which there remains no explanation to this day... 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 attem...
Jan 02, 2025•47 min•Season 7Ep. 6
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house... Possibly one of the most famous Christmas verses yet itself the subject of a pervading mystery. Submitted anonymously to a New York newspaper in 1823, any potential author didn't come to light until over 20 years later. But then, an ownership contest began... Join us for the first of this year's Christmas Specials as we get merry for the festive season and Sooz introduces us to an unhinged rendition of Jingle Bells and tries to get Ma...
Dec 19, 2024•43 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Joining Sooz Kempner's One Hit Wonders as another occasional new series, our favourite game returns! Discovered during the recording of our Gentleman of Heligoland episode, VHGuess sees Chris and Masud have to guess which particular VHSes are in a bundle Sooz finds at random on eBay. With new rules, structure and lifelines added, join us as we play Mystery on the Rocks panel game VHGuess! Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true...
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Will Duggan becomes the first ever returning guest on Mystery on the Rocks as he joins us while we go through the bizarre story of the mysterious Kaspar Hauser. Found wandering the streets of Nuremberg in 1828, Kaspar was apparently sixteen years old and had about his person two letters which offered little in the way of identification beyond his name and age. He claimed to have grown up in captivity and, as he was moved about under the guardianships of different people and endured several attem...
Dec 05, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 7Ep. 4
In 1996, Gary Triano is murdered - a pipe bomb explodes his car. It takes a decade for justice to be served. So what on Earth took so long? 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 happe...
Nov 28, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Something a little different this week as we begin a new occasional series called Sooz Kempner's One Hit Wonders where Sooz takes us through the story of some of the very best (and worst) one hit wonders. Where are they now? Why did their one hit hit so hard and then other songs fail to replicate the success? For the first episode, Sooz tells us the story of John Parr and his almighty anthem 'St Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)'... Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the ...
Nov 21, 2024•57 min
This week, we take a look at the brutal murder of Japanese businessman and high stakes gambler Akio Kashiwagi, stabbed (potentially up to 150 times) in his home in January 1992. One of the world's greatest gamblers, he rinsed several casinos enough to give them cause for concern that, for once, the house might not win... As well as delving into which enemies he may have made enough to kill him, we also ask the burning question... Why was Peter Lorre a prominent cartoon character years after he p...
Nov 14, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 7Ep. 2
We know we spent last week's catch-up episode wanking on about the US election so you may wonder why we don't mention the outcome here. Recorded before the projections trickled in, this is our first case in well over a year. And with a twist! While recording the episode The Murder of Kyllikkii Saari Chris noticed it was the second most notorious homicide case in Finland. So what was the first? Rather than research ahead of time, Chris decides to find out about this one alongside Sooz and Masud.....
Nov 07, 2024•40 min•Season 7Ep. 1
