by Carl Reinemann
Podcast Name: One Shot at History One Shot at History digs into the forgotten corners of local history — the stories that lived briefly in newspaper columns and then quietly disappeared. Hosted by Carl Reinemann, each episode brings hometown stories, overlooked cases, crime, deep dives into history, or community moments back to life with dramatic narration, rich historical context, and a reminder that real history happens to ordinary people. Because the past only happens once
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May 26, 2026
<p><strong>What happens when the U.S. Navy, Cold War paranoia, and a quiet patch of northern Wisconsin collide? You get one of the weirdest stories in American history.</strong> </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, we follow the Navy’s secret plan to turn the Wisconsin woods into a giant communications system for nuclear submarines, complete with buried cables, tiny signals, big controversy, and a whole lot of “wait… they did what?” energy. And just when the story couldn’t get any stranger, it also somehow includes a government-funded bull.</p>
April 26, 2026
<p><strong>Forget everything you think you know about spies.</strong>James Bond had an Aston Martin and the full backing of British intelligence. Jason Bourne had black-ops conditioning and a talent for parkour. The American Founders had a printing press, some tobacco to barter with, and a desperate shortage of gunpowder.</p><p><strong>They still pulled it off.</strong></p><p>When George Washington took command of the Continental Army in 1775, his officers counted the gunpowder. Ninety barrels. For an army trying to fight the British Empire. One eyewitness recorded that Washington didn't utter a word for half an hour. Thirty minutes of silence from the man who would become the Father of this Nation. No orders. No strategy. Just math — and the math was catastrophic. Ninety barrels of gunpowder. Enough to start a fight. Not remotely enough to finish one. The most powerful army on earth was camped outside Boston, and George Washington's big plan was held together by roughly the same amount of gunpowder you'd find at a colonial Fourth of July party. Except it wasn't even July. And there was no United States yet.In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the hidden supply network that gave the Continental Army a fighting chance — a story that reads less like a history textbook and more like a screenplay Hollywood would reject for being too implausible:</p><p>• A 25-year-old bookseller with zero military training who dragged sixty tons of cannon across the frozen Berkshires — because he’d read a book about it.</p><p>• A French playwright-turned-arms-dealer who ran millions of livres worth of weapons through a fake Spanish trading company — while simultaneously writing The Barber of Seville.</p><p>• A Connecticut merchant dispatched to France with no French, no credentials, and no cover story except “private merchant” — tasked with arming an army of 25,000 men.</p><p>• A New York housewife who ran covert intelligence operations through her laundry line. (Yes, really.)</p><p>• A tiny eight-square-mile Caribbean island that became the most important illegal arms hub in the Atlantic world.</p><p>• And a rifle so accurate it psychologically broke the British officer class — who stopped wearing their own uniforms in public just to survive.</p><p>Before a single shot was fired at Concord. Before the ink was dry on the Declaration of Independence. America’s Founders had already built one of history’s most sophisticated clandestine supply networks — part spy ring, part arms cartel, part diplomatic con job.</p><p><br></p><p>Welcome to One Shot at History, with your host; Carl Reinemann</p><p><br></p><p></p>
April 14, 2026
<p>This week on One Shot at History, we're trading Wisconsin weather for Arkansas weirdness — and there is a lot of it.</p><p>We start in Little Rock in 1920, where two police officers on a routine patrol stumble into a ditch, see lights floating into the treetops, and nearly get shot by three women who were ghost hunting on a new moon. It gets stranger from there.</p><p>We visit the White River, home to Arkansas's own version of the Loch Ness Monster — a creature so embedded in local culture that the state legislature officially designated a stretch of river as the White River Monster Refuge in 1973. We head to Fouke, where a hairy, red-eyed creature attacked a family in 1971 and inspired a film that helped invent the found-footage horror genre. We drive the railroad tracks outside Gurdon, where a mysterious light has been bobbing in the darkness since the 1930s and no one — not scientists, not Unsolved Mysteries — has fully explained it.</p><p>And we spend some real time with the Cherokee legend of the Yunwi Tsunsdi — the Little People — small, powerful spirit beings who guided lost travelers, kept sacred fire burning on the Trail of Tears, and, according to tradition, are still out there. This one isn't a ghost story. It's something older and more alive than that.</p><p>One Shot at History takes a humorous look at the serious business of folklore — how stories travel, why they survive, and what they say about the people who keep telling them.</p><p>From Wisconsin, headed south of the Mason- Dixon Line</p><p></p>
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Podcast Name: One Shot at History
One Shot at History digs into the forgotten corners of local history — the stories that lived briefly in newspaper columns and then quietly disappeared. Hosted by Carl Reinemann, each episode brings hometown stories, overlooked cases, crime, deep dives into history, or community moments back to life with dramatic narration, rich historical context, and a reminder that real history happens to ordinary people. Because the past only happens once
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