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Friday 04 September 2026 18:06:05 GMT
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Amy :
Pikeville is made up of hard working coal mining families, just like most of SE KY. I’m from Knox County. KY. No matter where you go in SE KY if you are driving by people’s homes and you don’t belong in that neighborhood, we’re going to stare at you! We protect our homes and neighbors. However, had you stopped and asked for directions instead of driving in circles making assumptions about people you don’t know, you would have been treated with kindness and probably offered a cold drink. Kentucky has enough stereotypes without adding fuel to the fire. I’ve never encountered a rude person in all my visits to Pikeville. In every city there are good and bad people. But, you DIDN’T speak to them. You chose to speak poorly about people and make accusations that aren’t warranted. FYI, just because people were looking at strangers driving by their homes doesn’t mean they were going to eat you. They were probably wondering why these idiots keep driving by. Please consider removing your post or at least redo it and not make it seem you were treated badly.
2026-09-05 03:38:25
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billiter61277 :
Every state every town every city every county is not safe !! All I can say you are still alive br glad god protect you !! I live in pikeville with all my life yep I do travel ! Pikeville is not a bad place ! Sadly we live full on world with so many different societies!!
2026-09-06 20:52:46
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Brecki | Author :
It’s honestly a shame to see you label Pikeville as “awful,” “weird,” and “freaky” based on getting lost, driving up a holler, and having people look at you. You were driving into an area where people know the vehicles, faces, and families that regularly come through. When an unfamiliar person keeps driving farther into a holler, of course people are going to notice and wonder who you are and what you’re doing there. That isn’t automatically hostility or people being “creepy.” You were simply an unfamiliar face in a close-knit, rural community. That’s a very different environment from driving down a main road where nobody thinks twice about unfamiliar traffic. And calling the people you passed “The Hills Have Eyes” was especially unnecessary. Yes, there are people in these communities who live in poverty. But poverty doesn’t make someone frightening, ignorant, or less human, and it certainly doesn’t justify reducing an entire group of people to a horror-movie stereotype. What really stood out to me wasn’t that you had an uncomfortable experience. You’re allowed to feel uncomfortable when you’re lost somewhere unfamiliar. It’s the way you immediately interpreted the people around you and turned their curiosity into something sinister. The fact that your takeaway was to stereotype the people you encountered says a lot more about how you chose to perceive that experience than it does about Pikeville or the people who live here.
2026-09-05 16:46:20
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Kimberly lynn Thacker :
I am from pikeville ky and people from their has nothing to do with the hills have eyes that's awful to say.
2026-09-05 03:40:15
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Rhonda :
I work in pikeville but I do not live there. Sounds like it was your prejudice taking root.
2026-09-05 04:49:25
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paulbaker2051 :
Ma’am just so ya know , those strange people that you saw would have been the first people that helped y’all in a bad situation no matter the circumstances, some of the most giving and kind people you will ever meet .
2026-09-05 13:02:45
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Sherrie :
some advice never go down a gravel road in the hollers . never unless invited or need helpand you might wanna run in screaming help. stay on the main road always. I understand getting lost in the hollers.
2026-09-06 20:53:13
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Michelle Jones :
So Pikeville is freaky because you can’t follow a gps correctly? 🤔
2026-09-05 05:20:05
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ReShea :
Lived in Pike County all my life...This is a nice area to live and we r good people around here...
2026-09-05 01:39:13
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Apes :
please dont go back and bother those nice people again!
2026-09-05 13:52:40
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Krystal_Michele90 :
I live in Hellier !! Lived here my whole life. Pike county is small coal town . It’s beautiful town. With great people. Its place I call home
2026-09-05 08:27:07
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Rayfinkle :
And to think all you or him had to do was stop and ask for directions they woulda either told you the way to go or even had you follow them out
2026-09-06 17:22:16
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Mary Childress :
Lived in Pikeville Kentucky all my life watch what you say about us I it's Beautiful here
2026-09-05 02:56:30
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TammyKC :
I travel to Pikeville about every weekend. I have never met people who remind me of these hills have eyes. Never felt like I was going to be eaten. I’ve never had a bad experience. Sad you would say such things.
2026-09-05 11:34:01
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Melanie Joyy :
All of the things you said about how you feel about the people, places, and the "freaky things" you witnessed. Yet there are multiple chain hotels in the area and even a local hotel in downtown Pikeville that are all acceptable places to stay for a person who was feeling uneasy about the area...yet y'all went to the Alpike motel? It just don't track lol. I grew up there and have been gone 30 years. I can see where the GPS probably had issues up in the hollows, which why would anyone even take a motorcycle up one of those roads if you're unfamiliar with it and had no destination. The main road is US 23, a major highway. Along the stretch, through Pikeville and around, there are restaurants, shopping, banks.. anything you'd need as a tourist.. There ARE some hillbilly looking people for sure. Ironically, when I first started this video, I thought you looked like someone from Pikeville. I didn't have any negativity attached to the observation, just the observation that you seemed like the people from home. Maybe food for thought. 😳
2026-09-05 06:14:35
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Tonya Lanae Johnson :
We have the nicest people you’ll ever meet in Pike County! Btw.. Hellier isn’t Pikeville.
2026-09-05 12:03:48
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janiceengle14 :
I never had that kind of incident there!! weird
2026-09-06 15:42:07
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GregG :
if you're not from hellier you best not be there after dark hellier is a little cold town where everybody knows their neighbor and they know who's not their neighbor. they're good people but they don't like strangers. family was raised all around that area
2026-09-05 02:30:30
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Viola Campbell :
This post says more about the lady telling it than the region.
2026-09-05 13:27:23
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Porky :
People in eastern Ky are some of the nicest folks you will ever meet,if you would have stopped and asked they would have probably led you where you needed to go…”strange people looking at you”confused on that one
2026-09-05 02:52:06
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Theresa :
I find that hard to believe Kentuckians are the most friendliest people its a small town and you're a stranger please don't put us kentuckians down
2026-09-05 16:22:37
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beverlyrife4 :
So sad you would say that about a area you only been to one time
2026-09-05 02:26:53
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Charlotte Ritchey755 :
An unfamiliar car or motorcycle driving around in high dollar or exclusive communities would react the same way. It’s unfair to disrespect people for natural curiosity.
2026-09-05 13:54:33
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MF Paranormal :
Pikeville area is pretty calm… but then you said in comments alpike so I understand 😳
2026-09-05 01:29:33
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Allison D. Brown :
I just moved to pike county from South Carolina. I’ve never come across anything bad or weird. The area isn’t big enough to get lost. This video gave me the ick.
2026-09-05 08:22:01
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