Kovachevitsa Old Village

Kovachevitsa Old Village (referred to in the source material as Kovachevitsa village) appears in a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency report dated 13 February 1953 as one of three villages—Gorno Drenovo, Kovachevitsa, and Leshten—that made up the Kovachevitsa Obshtina. The report provides administrative and demographic information for the early 1950s, noting population groupings (for example, "Kovachevitsa has about 200 Orthodox families") and the presence of local Communist Party organization ("There are about 80 Communist Party members in Kovachevitsa"). The report also names local functionaries and records political incidents from the postwar period, such as an internment of five families in August 1950 attributed to a local party figure. The supplied sources do not include any accounts of supernatural occurrences, apparitions, cemetery legends, or other paranormal phenomena tied to Kovachevitsa. Notes in the research explicitly state that no folkloric or paranormal material is present in the available documents. Where geographic anchors are given in the CIA report they appear in a grid-like notation (e.g., "Kovachevitsa (N4141 32350)"), but the sources do not convert these to modern latitude/longitude coordinates and no precise coordinates for abandoned houses or a specific cemetery are provided. Because the documentary evidence is administrative and political in nature, any claims about abandoned houses or cemetery legends at Kovachevitsa are not supported by the provided sources and require additional local, ethnographic, or heritage sources to corroborate.