Remember thosederelict Bulgarian warfare memorial that resemble blank fortresses ? Well , it turns out they ’re just as otherworldly inside . Here ’s one intrepid urban explorer ’s journey into the shadowy corridor of the shuttered Bulgarian - Soviet Friendship monument in Varna , Bulgaria . It ’s also a case study on why you never tour old Soviet memorial alone .
https://gizmodo.com/the-otherworldly-fortresses-that-are-bulgarias-socialis-5630648
In its Communist bloom , the “ Park - Monument of the Bulgarian - Soviet Friendship ” contained an eternal flame , a bomb tax shelter , and a tourism centre . Loudspeakers would also blastDmitri Shostakovich ’s Symphony No . 7on perpetual loop .
The center open up in 1978 and was later leave to crumble after Bulgarian Communism fall in belated 1989 . And when Darmon Richter traveled out to this ominous concrete - and - branding iron memorial 21 years later , he set up the brick barricades broken … and the auction pitch - black hallways ripe for cheat :
The darkness is absolute , and at time suffocating – many thousands of tonnes of concrete sales booth between you and the lighting of Clarence Day . Not only that , but even the slightest audio can create recollective replication inside this cubist warren of burrow and stairwells . It was n’t just my own footsteps that were haunt me ; the surrounding parking area is a pop haunt for isolated cad , and every howl from alfresco would become trammel inside the monument , distort as it keep up me from room to way [ … ] Many locals I had spoken to refused to come up this way without a can of mace .
Richter did n’t encounter any pawl , but he did find oneself the old bookstore fill with many haemorrhoid of sweet excrement . Upon discovering that , things became very weird very speedily :
Tentatively rounding the last corner I came into a well - lit chamber , with narrow window spaced equally along one side [ … ] This was in fact somebody ’s home . The same somebody who had been defecating in the bookshop , and who belike knew every corner and crevice of the darkened spaces within the monument .
It was at that point that Richter convey the hell out of there . you may read his full story atThe Bohemian Blog , whichdetails other strange abandoned spots in Bulgaria . Also , here ’s a snowy adventure at another Bulgarian monument .
https://gizmodo.com/bulgarias-abandoned-socialist-monument-is-secretly-on-t-5889598
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