Karen Kilgariff
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3,962 appearances
39 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 8 Jun
Karen Kilgariff’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Her brother and little sister had stayed upstairs in the cockpit with the parents. And around 11, she woke up because she heard her brother yelling, Daddy, help. Woo! And then she heard stomping sounds, and then it went quiet. And she laid in her bunk, shaking and confused and not sure what was going on. And she's 11? She's 11 years old. Oh my gosh, okay.
So finally, she sneaks up to the main cabin, and she sees her mother and brother lying in a big pool of blood. Holy shit. so she said the second she saw them, she knew she, they were dead. So she went past them and snuck up, uh, to the cockpit hatch and she stuck her head out and she saw more blood on the deck and she saw a knife on the ground.
So she crawls out of the hatch cause she's trying to find her dad and And Captain Harvey runs at her and growls, get back down there and pushes her down the stairs. Holy shit. So she closes her eyes, runs past her brother and mom and goes back to her bunk and gets into her, goes back to her cabin and gets back in the bunk. And she lays there. She doesn't know what to do.
She's obviously probably in shock, freaking out. Then she hears sloshing. And she looks down. And the floor of her sleeping quarters is covered in oily water. And she realizes the ship is sinking. Oh, my God. So she's afraid to move. But she looks up. And then suddenly the captain's standing in the doorway staring at her. And he's carrying her brother's rifle.
And he stares at her for a little bit. Then he just turns and walks away. So she lays in bed, frozen stiff, doesn't know what to do. But pretty soon the water's up to her mattress. So she knew she had to get out of there. So she wades through waist-deep water out of her cabin, out of her quarters, out through the main cabin.
She goes back up on deck and she looks over the side and she sees that the life raft is already in the water. And Captain Harvey walks up to her and hands her the rope.
that connects connecting the life raft and says hold on to this i'll be back in a second and she's in such shock and fear she drops the rope and so as he's walking away he looks and sees that the rope is going and the dinghy's starting to float away so he dives in after it and uh he dives in after it and she watched him swim after the boat and disappear into the night Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
I have so many questions. Go on. I stole that last line directly from the Reader's Digest article that I was reading about this story. I read several articles about it, but Reader's Digest was the main one. And I just want to thank them for being an American classic. I miss that. I used to read this when I was a kid. That's all I read.
I didn't want to say it. It's all about Reader's Digest. I'm going to cover to cover. So, okay. So it's an 11-year-old girl standing on a sinking boat. Fuck. Who's witnessed her family murdered, part of her family murdered. What does she do? Does she cry? Does she cower? No. She remembers that there is a small cork life raft in the cockpit. So she runs and grabs it. And as she does, as she...
grabs a hold of it and they they don't describe this that much but um she basically runs forward to the front of the boat grabs the life raft and by the time she gets there the boat is sinking under her feet so she has just enough time to jump onto it as the boat goes under the water so she basically went down with this ship and then jumped onto this little cork life raft holy shit so
Now she's alone at sea in a tiny raft. It's three feet long. I mean, you saw it in that picture. She doesn't fit into it. She couldn't lay down in it. It's half her. It's probably like can hold her legs. So she has a blouse and pants on. She's freezing cold. It's pitch black. There's no moon out. She can't see, so she keeps getting hit with huge waves. I know.
And the salt water is getting in her eyes and stinging her eyes. She can't open her eyes and she's afraid that Captain Harvey is nearby. Oh my God. So that's, then it starts raining. So her first night out in the water, bad news. Okay. Anytime you're lost, you're out at sea. I wouldn't be looking for good news.
Oh, maybe. You mean hydration-wise? Yeah. For a second, I thought you meant, I wonder if she was in a freshwater. Was she in a fish tank? Did she go to Lake Havasu? Okay. So she wakes up the next morning. The sun comes out. She's not cold anymore. Now, of course, she's boiling hot. Oh, I've seen Joe versus Volcano.
You know what it's like to be on a raft. But his raft was nice. It was pretty sweet. It was huge. And he had that great suitcase. Yeah. Her raft was slowly disintegrating. No. Yes. Sweet baby angel. So she has to hang her legs over the side to float like the plastic rubbery part that has the air in it. is the part that's not disintegrating.
So she has to sit on the edge and then hang her legs over the side. Then parrotfish come and start biting her legs.
I don't know. They start biting her legs. I bet they're the ones that you see in tropical fish tanks. Yeah. They think they're all big, but they're fancy colors in their teeth. Fucking shark food. So that's her first day at Sucks. The next day... That's her first day.
The next day she wakes up, her tongue is swelling in her mouth because of all the salt that she's taking in and no hydration. And then she sees a plane and she's waving. She takes her shirt off and waves and waves and waves this white shirt over her head. It dips down toward her a little bit and then flies away. And never comes back.
Yeah. That was how she was going to get saved. Nope. So that afternoon, she spots some shapes swimming in the water about 30 yards away. And she's scared to death because she thinks they're sharks. Send her foe. When they come closer, it's a pod of porpoises that swim with her.
For hours and hours. Never. No. Now we all cry. At the beauty of nature. Are you, this is 100% for sure. Yes, this is from her, this is her book, Alone, Orphan of the Ocean.
Have you ever seen those specials where they have children that have like brain damage or some kind of disease get into water with a dolphin? They do studies and their brain function improves when they're around dolphins. Aww. Dolphins have like weird fucking children ESP and they know when something's in the water and needs their help.
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