Mystery on the Rocks Podcast
1) 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 ...Show More
2) 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 m...Show More
3) 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 di...Show More
4) 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...Show More
5) 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...Show More
6) 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...Show More
7) 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. ...Show More
8) 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 eve...Show More
9) 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 Quit...Show More
There's No One Quite Like Grandma | Sooz's One Hit Wonders #6 | CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
55:41 | Dec 25th, 2025
10) 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, t...Show More