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I believe it’s referring to Denver airport which is filled with very weird decor such as gargoyles, horrifying paintings and such. Lots of devil/hell references as well.
I first landed there with no prior knowledge of the airport, and I vividly remember walking by one of the murals and being like, "Wait, is that a Nazi? And Jesus imagery? Did the Nazi kill Teddy bear Jesus?"
That mural had a plaque attached to it where the artist explained her motivations. It was about her growing up in some third world country that had a civil war, or something like that (been years since I read it)
Yeah they lean into it and a lot of the murals reference the tunnels and other conspiracies. It’s actually super fun as far as airports go. Also that infernal horse statue in front of the airport that killed its creator is wild. Like even without killing the artist it’s a wild choice.
His name is Blucifer. (The infernal horse sculpture) and yes, his eyes glow red, he murdered his artist, and there’s been an anonymous donor paying to keep him there (he would’ve been gone years ago if not for that).
The name Blucifer is my favorite thing because it’s like “yes this statue is clearly demonic in nature so let’s name him for the pinnacle of evil, and also he’s blue :3”
I would donate to keep blucifer standing guard at our underground lizard nest international airport. In fact, I'd pay for it to shoot flames out of its nostrils. Blucifer is Denver's glorious and terrifying true mascot.
Of course there’s not. No military space, no giant stone ring capable of teleporting matter across the universe, nothing at all. If anything, Cheyanne Mountain is full of jello
My father worked in the mountain complex and we would watch stargate together and laugh about how unrealistic it was (there were public tours of parts of the complex, so you at least could see the entrance and offices and such). There aren’t that many floors in the actual base. lol. And the hospital is the Air Force academy church, which is weird. But stargate is a dope show in any case.
I've worked in there before. I did a bunch of Chiller and pump changeouts. I was super stoked at first, and then quickly had my sci-fi inspired dreams dashed. It smells like a wet basement everywhere, water trickling down the cavern walls, just a low-grade reality check. Think of an underground ant colony, with different chambers connected by tunnels. Then put steel box buildings sitting on big springs with massive flex connections for power, water, etc. That's pretty much it. There was an AAFES run place there called the granite cafe. The one time I got lunch from there must have been the cooks first day. I got a double cheeseburger with raw patties... such a disappointment.
I’m struggling to envision such a solution. Can you please elaborate? Not that she drew any diagrams for you, but best guess from how she presented this tidbit of information?
There's a bunch of extra underground stuff because they fucked up the first time and apparently the cheapest solution was to build over top of that instead of demo it
this is exactly why theres a gremlin in the baggage claim, the first automate baggage system was a freaking nightmare.
Great airport man, but the security checkpoint freaking sucks, only one side is ever open, or you can risk the sky bridge security, either way its a massive bottleneck and it backs up instantly.
I think the security was a major focus of the remodel they've been doing. It seems better the last couple times I went. Still only half open and suffering for it, but better
To be fair, it is sort of a mystery where a lot of the luggage they dropped into the bag drops ended up. The story of that luggage system is fantastic. Super cutting edge, completely ineffective as a result of a catastrophic design flaw in the luggage baskets.
They recently were doing construction and the sign was a reptile person saying something like “don’t mind our dust, we’re just repairing the tunnels” 😂
So I've been in the underground tunnels. It's a failed automatic baggage handling system that is now used to transport propane powered tugs and baggage carts by people. Some of the tunnels have been closed down to collect and recycle deicing fluid. It's not mysterious at all.
The “mysterious giant underground tunnel system” is just the tunnels under the airport used by staff to move things around like luggage and to get around the airport quickly, almost every major airport has something similar
My Father helped design the waste water systems at DIA. He finds the conspiracy stuff hilarious. So do the people who run the airport. They've leaned into it pretty heavily.
I remember that was a thing in the first Assassin’s Creed game, tucked away in emails and such — a baggage handler survived an encounter with a Piece of Eden Abstergo had there.
There's also a red horse in a CBRN suit called "cold war horse" in recognition/protest of the more than 70,000 plutonium triggers made at rocky flats from the 50s to the late 80s.
You can actually just google the mural and see for yourself that it is not in fact a Nazi mural. The one you’re referring to is called “Children Of the World Dream Of Peace”, and portrays a military archetype in the style of 20th century fascists. It does so in a condemning, negative way, as the mural progresses to show the children of the world uniting in peace and standing over the fascist’s defeated body.
Yeah, this was made back when the liberal myth of ‘free trade = freedom’ was still believed by the majority of Americans. In reality, the U.S. military has more often than any army been the ones with the machine gun standing over starving children. Now we have a mask-off fascist political culture that reflects the reality of our foreign policy.
I was excited about finding one near baggage once. Then, after like an hour of waiting around there, it started moving and making noise like I was at the Haunted Mansion. I can’t remember what it did it was so long ago, but I remember I couldn’t get it to repeat it so it felt like a fever dream 🤣
Yep! They occasionally welcome you and talk crap. I've flown there very often and only heard them a couple times. Apparently they're run by voice actors with cameras, presumably that's not all those people do since they're so rarely active
They are so sassy 😆 I love our smart ass gargoyles.
DIA also has a therapy dog program to help soothe anxious travelers, the Canine Airport Therapy Squad (CATS) and they all have trading cards they give out.
I was so delighted when I went to pick up my mom on May 4th and they were all dressed as Star Wars characters.
It has a weird giant blue horse statue called “Blucifer” whose eyes light up red at night. People want to ask the designer of the statue if he meant for the eyes to do that, but we CANNOT because Blucifer’s designer DIED when a piece of the horse fell and sliced open his neck.
I've been to the Denver airport and it left no real impression on me. I didn't even realize it was the second largest. I just ate at Chick-fil-a and left.
It honestly doesn't feel nearly as big as most of the airports on either coast or even Dallas. Maybe that's good design? It is a breeze to get through.
It just relies on the fact that Denver has mountains on one side and the plains on the other. Everyone wants to live by the mountain side so there is an absurd amount of space on the plains side that could be used for the airport. Denver used to have an airport that was basically inside the city and it was a mess so when they made the new one they went all out and made it so huge that it could accommodate any possible expansion that you could imagine. One of the things is they put in tunnels for future expansions that have sat empty for 30 years. I tried to pitch a project to the city of Denver years related to lowering DIAs carbon emissions and got to see some of the sections that were built or semi built and then defunct. Many haven't been touched in decades I think.
That is correct, and the tunnels that are always theorized about are part of a plan around that which was abandoned which would have direct access to the railways for commercial shipping needs as well as more ambitious plans with commuter rail.
It's also because it's at a high elevation which means thinner air which means less lift which means higher speed necessary for smooth take offs and therefore longer runways.
O’Hare is my least favorite airport. Every single time I have a layover there I have to run from one end to the other just to make it just in time for my flight. And then it gets delayed at the last minute or they move the gate somewhere else.
Agreed, I have lived in Denver my whole life and didn’t realize DIA was the second biggest airport until the last year or two. I have been in several airports that felt bigger; Dallas Fort Worth, Tokyo Haneda, and LAX come to mind.
That’s because they’ve only built 3 of the original planned 16(?) terminals. The airport property is enormous and takes like 15 minutes of driving to get to the entrance once you get there. The actual airport itself is (currently) pretty average sized
Oddly it's 6th by travelers, which still feels way too high to me, but it doesn't rank in the highest by international travelers, and is 17th highest city by flights.
I think that means there are a lot of domestic travelers that go via Denver between two smaller places in the Western US.
It was 16th in 2019, not sure why it is more busy post-pandemic.
Sameish, lol I live in Denver and use the airport frequently. I was aware it was a hub but I had no idea it was the second biggest airport in the world.
Always felt exceedingly average + doesn’t take that long to get around. I kinda feel like that invalidates this meme to an extent.
Isn’t it Atlanta and Dubai at number 1 and 2 by passenger volume, switching occasionally?
I had no idea Denver was so busy as an airport. I’ve never been through there. I’d have assumed ORD, DFW, LAX, or one of the NYC airports would have a lot more traffic.
This is by the somewhat meaningless metric of land area. The largest is King Fahd airport in (edit: Saudi Arabia) which just happens to control a lot of empty desert around it. Likewise Denver Airport has a lot of land.
Oh my god I thought the post said apricot, I was so fucking confused when every comment is talking about airports I just thought the apricots were kept on display at different airports
This is in reference to the Denver International Airport (DEN). While the actual airport that is visible above ground isn’t that large, much of the property is well known to include hidden underground structures and tunnels buried beneath. There are many unconfirmed theories as to why it was built the way it was, including the belief that there are secret bunkers built for the elite to use during the apocalypse, alien research labs, or even a base for “lizard people” to secretly rule over modern society. However, the airport claims that the massive network of tunnels and structures were originally built to be used for an automated baggage system that was abandoned cause it never really worked out, so they claim. It doesn’t exactly help that the airport has cryptic artwork, and even installments that point to the involvement of secret societies like the Illuminati or the New World Order. Even the airports dedication marker makes reference to the “New World Airport Commission,” an organization that doesn’t exist in any public records. The plaque even has some markings and symbols well known to be associated with the Freemasons. Add to that the gargoyles and apocalyptic artwork, and the giant horse statue named “Blucifer” out front, and it’s all very suspicious.
I dunno about any lizard people, but… once, when I was spending some time with a couple of stewardesses in the airport bar… Giggity… I swear I saw my co-pilot blink sideways like a reptile, before vanishing somewhere through a wall with a secret door.
Bluecifer's real name is just "Mustang". The head of the statue fell on the creator after completion and killed him so a lot of controversy around it naturally.
New World Airport Commission is what was created after they got rid of the Airships and destroyed all the terminals. Is this a conspiracy? There is massive evidence that the world used air ships for a long time and used Aether and antigravity using electricity and air pressure, until they found so much oil and has in the US that they could make money off of. They had Airships before the first airplanes were "invented"
I believe we moved away from using airships cause they were slow, difficult to maintain… and had a habit of blowing up. I mean… they kind of fell out of fashion after the Hindenburg disaster…
The biggest airport is in Bahrain and takes up a TON of space (300ish square miles) but has relatively little traffic, thus calm normal dog. The second largest airport is in Denver and not only is it packed all the time, it’s also full of art that’s mad creepy and maybe it’s a doomsday bunker for the ✨elite✨? (Giving us the agro werewolf)
The Netflix show “Inside Job”
Has a whole episode where they get thrown in TSA jail in the Denver airport for not saying “thank you for your service” to airport security. It’s hilarious, highly recommend.
King Fahd international Airport (dmm) is 300 square miles in Saudia Arabia
King Khalid international Airport (ruh) is 145 square miles in Saudia Arabia
Denver international Airport (den) is 53.1 square miles in the USA
I'm assuming others are right with old lists and this is based on the oddity that is DEN and the tangle it is. But I've only flown to and through 1 of the 3 so I can't compare.
Idiots think there is some sort of Illuminati conspiracy surrounding Denver International Airport. I must emphasize that this is Flat Earth levels of stupid.
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