What the Hell Was Going On?

It's 1991. The Seinfeld theme song is blasting on your TV, Your brother and his friends are fighting over The Super Nintendo, and your mom just stocked up on bagel bites and dunkaroos. Life as you know it is good. In this episode, we discuss a small Texas town where a house fire shakes a community, and becomes one families tragedy. Investigators, experts, and the justice system lock onto one e...

It's 2004. CD's ruled car stereos, Mountain Dew was basically a food group, Usher had us all saying "Yeah!", and all of your friends had a Motorola Razr. The country felt loud, distracted, and permanently online. However, some stories slipped through the noise. Back in Lubbock, Texas, a mother and her three children fell victim to an unbelievable act of murder. Put the Nintendo D...

We're headed back to the 90's today. VHS tapes ruled the living room, Caller ID was optional, and you never locked the front door. And while everyone was arguing about who did or didn't rewind Candyman, a series of brutal murders turned a college town into a nightmare. These harrowing events would also go on to inspire one of the most iconic horror films of all time. So grab your overs...

Let's go back to the early 2000's. Limewire destroyed your computer, you just figured out how to change your top friends on MySpace, The O.C. making everyone want side bangs, and Von Dutch trucker hats were all the rage. Underneath the lingering Abercrombie Fierce smell you just couldn't escape from, something unsettling was happening. In this episode, we trace the parallel stories of...

In 2013, when everyone else was worried about Snapchat filters, Vine loops, and what song ruled the radio, something far more unsettling was happening in West Texas. Thirty-year-old Maegan Hembree left her home in Smyer, Texas-- and was never seen again. In this episode, we break down the entire timeline of Maegan's last known moments, the people she crossed paths with that night, evidence investi...

It's October 2000 - when butterfly clips were everywhere, friends were swapping burned CD's, and you couldn't use the house phone while someone was online. But in Lubbock, Texas, 14 year old Sarah Rogers never made it home. In this episode, Jordyn and Alyssa rewind to the early 2000's. A time of dial-up tones, and TRL countdowns - to revisit one of Lubbock's tragic true crime c...

Welcome to What the Hell Was Going on? - our new mix of true crime, horror, and all the weird stuff we can't stop talking about. In this first episode, we're just hanging out, talking about why we're drawn to true crime and horror, and laying out what's to come. New episodes drop every week. Join us as we unravel the strange, the tragic, and the just plain unbelievable. Oh and don&...