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Strange Things About Denver Airport

HERE ARE SOME STRANGE THINGS SURROUNDING THIS ILLUMINATI DENVER AIRPORT

On February 28, 1995, the Denver International Airport (DIA) opened its doors and its runways to the public after falling over a year behind schedule and spending a reported $2 billion more than its original budget had dictated.

The massive new airport didn’t just take up lots of time and money—it also took up a lot of space: More than two decades later, it’s still the largest airport in the United States by area (53 square miles) with the longest commercial use runway available in the country (runway 16R/34L is 16,000

That all sounds normal enough, right? But people have wondered if DIA—giant, expensive, strange DIA—is home to something far more sinister.

  1. Denver International Airport's runways form a hate symbol.

A shape that many people have noticed looks curiously like a swastika, at least from the air. Taken on its own, such a shape could be brushed off as being just a really terrible piece of planning, but combined with everything else, it all looks very odd indeed.

  1. Denver International Airport is involved with biological warfare.

Leo Tanguma’s two murals, which take up wide swathes of wallspace in DIA’s baggage claim, might have some nice names—they are called “Children of the World Dream of Peace” and “In Peace and Harmony with Nature”—but their actual content is terrifying. Death-masked soldiers with guns stalk children, animals are dead and kept under glass, and the entire world looks to have been destroyed. As if being at the airport isn’t bad enough.
Some believe the murals at Denver's airport feature doomsday scenes. It doesn't help that an inlay on the floor features the letters "Au" and "Ag." Though this nod to gold and silver is appropriate—Colorado does have a rich mining history, after all—some believe the letters represent a dangerous strain of hepatitis that could serve as a biological weapon. Those two symbols, coupled with the unnerving mural, have fueled a conspiracy theory that the airport could be a hub for biological warfare.

Still, the last place anyone wants to see depictions of death and destruction in an airport.

  1. Denver International Airport was built by a secret  society Freemasons.

There is one very weird marker that’s hard to ignore: a dedication marker and capstone that’s been placed over a time capsule (which supposedly includes a credit card, Colorado flag, and DIA opening day newspapers, among many other things) that is set to be opened in 2094. The symbols on the marker are associated with the Freemasons, a charitable organization that is often subject to their own conspiracy theories. The marker also mentions the “New World Airport Commission,” an organization that doesn’t actually exist (or does it? Our brains are spinning!) but appears to be taking credit for building the entire airport. However, the contributors listed as part of the so-called NWAC, including an architecture firm and a metal company, do exist. And they just make buildings and metals. Well, probably.

  1. Denver International Airport has mysterious tunnels.

The airport is home to a number of tunnels, including a tram that goes between concourses and a failed automated baggage system. That all sounds normal enough, but there is definitely something weird about that automated baggage system—mainly, that it cost a lot of money and then never actually worked.

  1. Denver International Airport is the headquarters for an underground government.

But where do the tunnels go? Perhaps to some kind of underground bunker? Most of the people who believe in the various conspiracy theories regarding DIA seem to think that the airport is actually the headquarters for something far nastier than just an airport—like the New World Order or our own American government.

  1. Denver International Airport's giant horse statue is cursed.

Some believe the horse is cursed, and that its glowing eyes represent the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse