The airport which launched a thousand conspiracy theories
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An airport with a layout shaped like a swastika and creepy death murals has been labeled one of the spookiest on the planet.
Soon after it opened, Denver International Airport found itself at the center of conspiracy theories — and they persist 20 years later.
To this day pilots and passengers ask why does the airport resemble a swastika? Some claim it must surely be a sign of a secret right-wing plot, The Sun reports.
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Conspiracy theorists soon turned their attention to the airport’s bizarre art-packed interior and exterior.
Most prominent is the bright blue Mustang, by El Paso artist Luis Jiménez. The giant sculpture actually killed Jiménez in 2006, when a section of it fell on him severing an artery in his leg.But it was a collection of bizarre murals by Leo Tanguma, now removed, that really generated interest.
One even featured a Nazi-style "stormtrooper" carrying a huge sword and rifle.
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With names like In Peace and Harmony With Nature and The Children of the World Dream of Peace they depicted — the artist said — the triumph of peace over war.
To many the pictures true agenda were hints at a "New World Order." Others point to masonic symbols scattered around the airport including a huge stone in the airport’s Great Hall.
The presence of gargoyles is also said to demonstrate that something evil is lurking.
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So what is the true purpose of Denver International Airport, if not to usher travelers in and out of Colorado?
Some conspiracy theorists claim it is a giant military base, or even a concentration camp, just waiting to be used to assist in the enslavement of the American people.
There’s also vague references to a vast underground facility, that may or may not connect to other deep subterranean military bunkers throughout the country.
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According to the website VigilanteCitizen.com: “This gigantic structure will eventually become much more than a regular commercial airport.
“It has the capacity to handle a huge amount of people and vehicles, leading observers to think that the structure might be used as military base and others even add that it will be used as a civilian concentration camp in the near future.”
Matt Chasansky, the Art Program Manager, said in 2012: “You name a conspiracy theory and somehow we seem to be connected to it.
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“But probably the most common is that there’s an underground city and that it is a part of a network of underground cities that the government or some sort of shadow international government, or aliens, are building, depending on your perspective ... or Masons ...
“I can’t give a tour in the airport without at least one person attaching themselves to the tour and starting to ask questions about it.
“There’s not [any] evidence you can provide, there are no assurances you can give that the conspiracy theory is wrong, because ... obviously it’s going to be a cover up or brainwashing or chips installed in brains.”
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This story originally appeared on The Sun.