A chat with some friends late last night took a turn toward the Denver International Airport and the high strangeness therein. And, rumor has it, below.
Built at $2 billion over budget and unveiled in February 1995—16 months behind schedule—Denver Airport has been attracting controversy since construction began. The airport is 53 square miles, making it the second-largest in the world by area, behind King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Pretty impressive for the nineteenth largest city in the US. Then again, Denver is a major airline hub. If its airport’s unusual size were the only oddity, it could be brushed off easily. But the strangeness only starts there.
The stone dedication marker for a time capsule buried under an American flag at the south end of the terminal actually mentions the “New World Airport Commission.” Furthering speculation, its design features the square and compasses symbol associated with the Freemasons.
Conspiracy theorists argue that the New World Airport Commission really refers to the New World Order. According to that same Telegraph article, “[It’s] actually the New—World Airport Commission,” according to the airport. “It was designed by a planning and advocacy group consisting of local business and political leaders. The group had absolutely no association with the ‘New World Order’.”
A group of local businessmen get together to help fund the airport. That’s perfectly reasonable. They happen to be Freemasons. A little anachronistic in 1995 perhaps, but not beyond the realm of coincidence. Two questions remain, though: Who were these civic-minded business leaders, and what was their involvement with the airport, exactly?
Some quick research turns up who at least one of them was.
Charles Ansbacher, the man who coined the name of the New World Airport Commission listed on the Masonic capstone in DIA’s great hall, passed away Sunday night. He was also instrumental in creating the airport’s enormous art program, which commissioned works such as the Tanguma murals and the Mustang.
The New World Airport Commission was responsible for Denver International’s art program. Keep that in mind as you view this:
And these:
And last but not least, this:
You’ve got to admit, the above is a far cry from the modern art sculptures and the travel brochure style pictures of exotic locales adorning most airports.
The DIA art program: Fine print fulfilling the requisite publication of a Luciferian plan, or product of aesthetically warped Late Moderns altogether out of touch with objective standards of beauty? You decide.
NB: The horse statue has a colorful history of its own.
Dubbed ”Blucifer” by locals, it is a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a wild, cerulean-hued horse rearing up in anger. The eyes glow red at night, but that is just one hint of its evil energy. The giant horse killed its creator, sculptor Luis Jiménez, before it was even finished being made. In 2006, a 9,000-pound section of the enormous sculpture fell on Jiménez, severing an artery in his leg and causing his death. Despite this terrible accident, Blue Mustang was installed in front of the airport in 2008.
OK, the airport’s layout and aesthetic are without a doubt weird. But has anything strange ever happened there?
The terror around DIA isn’t confined to its terrestrial space. In 2007, 14 planes at DIA ended up with cracked windshields. While most windshields were cracked at various places around the airport—during takeoff, taxiing at the airport, and parked at the gate—one of the planes’ windshields cracked when it was at 19,000 feet. While the official cause from National Transportation Safety Board officials was “foreign object debris”, the investigators couldn’t figure out the “precise nature” of the debris, though the airport is frequently plagued by storms, wind, and dust being blown around.
Prince of the Air check?
The weirdness isn’t restricted to ground level or the skies above. Over 110 million cubic yards or earth were moved during construction. That’s far more than even an airport of DIA’s size should need for its foundation. How to explain the massive excavation?
The Denver International Airport uses a series of underground tunnels to run a passenger train from concourse to concourse, which is currently functional. What’s not functional, and was part of the delay in the original opening of the airport, is an automated baggage system. It failed from the first try and was never fixed, leaving empty tunnels under the airport that leave people wondering where they might lead.
One might ask why the baggage system was left out of order when such vast amounts of time and money went to building it. Bureaucratic inertia? Perhaps, but red tape and laziness don’t explain away claims that those 1110 million cubic yards of earth they dug out are far more than the underground train and baggage system would need. For reference, that’s one-third as much earth as was moved to dig the Panama Canal.
Engineer Phil Schneider claimed to have been approached with a job offer to help build a base under Denver International. He ventured beneath the airport in 1994 and returned with photos of enormous, highway-like tunnels.
What manner of high strangeness is transpiring in, over, and under Denver’s airport? No one outside the loop knows for sure, but with how often the thought-stopping term “conspiracy theory” is thrown around, we can be certain the official story isn’t the whole story.
Mobile Suit Gundam meets Tom Clancy
I’ve been to DIA multiple times throughout my life, and I somehow missed the empty tunnels, the tanguma murals, and the demon sculptures. I might have seen some tunnels that deviated from the main line when I rode the passenger tram, but if so, I never imagined that they led to stations for Satan’s fan club.
A testament to the insidious nature of such things.
They’re hidden in plain sight. You only see it if you know to look for it. People rushing to make their flight will pass by without a second thought
They rush to make their flights because, as Brian describes, Denver has a giant airport. I remember seeing weird murals and sculptures, but friends, shops, and Game Boys distracted me from noticing the degree of the weirdness.
The airport made an advertising campaign making fun of the worries, with lizard people, aliens and whatnot. There’s even a page on the actual airport site listing some of the theories (of course presented in a way to mock them):
https://www.flydenver.com/great_hall/denfiles
It reminds me of that video of the Satanic sacrifice at CERN. The official response was “no one was really sacrificed, it was just a little spoof to have some fun.
Well okay, but even a “mock” satanic ritual happening at your laboratory is pretty damned creepy.
Similarly here. Yes there are some more far-fetched theories which probably aren’t true. But take them away and you have some creepy art with obvious occult overtones, and that’s without even getting into the incredibly incompetent construction. There’s some reason behind it and mockery only reveals that the reason isn’t something that you can talk about, even if it isn’t what the theorists think it is.
I found that statue familiar, despite never having been to Denver, so I did some digging. I have seen one very much like it, at 1/4th scale, in Abilene, Texas. The major difference is that it’s in earth tones, rather than that shade of blue. The eyes are red. I got the same “demon horse” impression in person that I got from the photograph of the big one. “Creepy” is certainly the right word for it.
Denver has quite a few interesting paranormal stories:
https://www.hauntedrooms.com/colorado/denver/haunted-places
Very weird place.
The Capitol Hill area… this may be an older list, but for the past decade or so that place has been so filled with the refuse of drug use and deinstitutionalization that there’s little point in trying to pick out the unquiet spirits that belong to the dead, specifically. But you can’t quite rule out possession among the others.
As to Cheesman Park, I’ve never seen it, but it is well reputed to belong to the Gay Community.
Point: hokey slashers where idiots with low self-discipline cavort over an Indian burial ground.
Have you seen Owen Benjamin’s standup on the topic?
https://tv.gab.com/channel/owenbenjamin/view/blucifer-the-denver-airport-standup-6012f2ebeb5093d484a31644
I may be the only one here that got the Warren Zevon reference. Good one.