Finding out the location	hard
Access	very hard
Safety	unsafe
Risk of being seen	very high
General condition of the place	bad
Traces of vandalism	few
Good place for taking pictures?	very good
Did you see other people?	few

Visit date    June 21 2019 at 14 hr
Visit duration    2 hours

In the Bulgarian mountains there is a small village and outside that village an old glass factory from the Soviet-era. We had heard that people were afraid of the old industrial area because there had been unexplainable events happening there.

People who went there had their cars breaking down even if they still had gas left in the tank, cell phones malfunctions and all machinery just dies here, it’s said. There are stories that wildlife freezes; wild animals just stand like statues on the road. If you stay for more than a short while the same thing happen with humans: they just freeze and can’t move until hours later. It’s a creepy story but I don’t believe in stuff like that, especially not in an old glass factory, right? :)

I went here in the beginning of summer when all nature blooms. We saw a lot of wildlife (no frozen animals, I promise): snakes, rabbits, deer, lizards and a fox.

In this huge industrial area there are big factory buildings, warehouses, furnaces (to melt sand to create glass), a canteen, office buildings and lots, lots of glass. Of course. In the buildings there are big beautiful glass art in the windows. It’s not always you find proof, strangely, of what was made in a factory by looking at the building itself. Here you do.

When the factory was still running, about 500 people worked here, long hours, around the clock. The furnaces were always burning: to melt sand to glass it takes more than 1100°C, and it’s not sufficient to ever let the furnace cool down.

In one of the office buildings there were a lot of green glass bottles, not used ones but maybe bottles that were samples of different models and sizes of the bottles they may have been producing. A lot of paperwork was left in large cabinets and it looked like the factory just closed down and everyone went home and never came back.

In the 1970’s there was a railway going straight to the factory from the Black Sea, to keep the supply of sand always fluent. Shortly after the Soviet regime came to an end in 1990, the factory, like many other state-funded industries, fell into despair.

The most interesting thing I found was a portrait of a woman above an arch in a hallway. I still wonder who she was.

Even if time has had its toll on the place, and the buildings are quite broken and empty (most of them), it was a really nice tour.


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The area is privately owned (they have another business on the side of the factory) and protected by armed security guards to keep looters and other trespassers away.
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