Denver International Airport

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DIA main terminal building

The Denver International Airport in the City of Denver is North America's largest airport. Certain traits and features have contributed to giving the airport a reputation among some people as being a strange, suspicious and uncomfortable place.

Among other things, the airport is believed by some to be the site of a subterranean base. There are speculations as to whether the base is used by aliens, is part of Operation Gardenplot, or is of strategic military importance.

1 Suspicious symbolism
- 1.1 Runway swastika
- 1.2 Murals
2 Biggest in North America
3 Over-do everything
4 See also
5 Notes
6 External links

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Suspicious symbolism

Denver International Airport has many features which some see as "creepy". The main building is very oddly shaped, it originally contained four disturbing murals, two of which have since been painted over, it contains many plaques in the floor bearing Indian words with no explanation, Masonic symbolism can be found there as well. To cap it all off, the airport runways are configured in the shape of a swastika.

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Runway swastika

Jeppsen Map of DIA

I've shown the aerial map to 5 people without telling them what they were looking for. 4 out of 5 people immediately saw a swastika. The 5th recognized it after I traced the runways with my finger, still not mentioning the word swastika. These images have not been altered in any way, and have been confirmed using Google Earth, although the Google Earth images have not been used, pending clarification of rules on use thereof.

However, in reality, the runways are laid out in this manner in order to maximise traffic handling without the danger of intersecting runways (notice how none of the runways cross another runway?). It is merely coincidental that some people see a "swastika" here.

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Murals

A series of four murals, two of which have been painted over now, made for a very eerie atmosphere at DIA. The murals were interrelated- 4 parts of a single story. Here they are in order.

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Everything's extinct

One of the murals

All of the "animals" in the painting (including a little Jewish girl, an Indian woman, and a black woman) are dead and on display. The not so subtle fact that there's a lot of dead stuff in the painting, and the slightly more subtle fact that dead people representing particular races are shown in about the same light as the animals both disgust many viewers. In the background there is a burning city. The image can be viewed in greater detail at this source: [1]

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General Skeletor

In this mural we have a giant figure killing a dove with what appears to be a scimitar, holding the ubiquitous AK-47 Assault Rifle, and towering over a line of robed women holding limp babies; the line stretches on to the horizon. A rainbow archs over the whole scene.

This one has been removed.

Between the robed victims and the AK-47, some might guess that the menacing figure is middle eastern, though others may not read that much into it.

Although it cannot be seen in most photos (it appears as a slightly gray discoloration in the extreme lower right) there is also a piece of paper in the mural on which one can read a poem that was found at Auschwitz. The paper in the mural reads as follows:

I once was a little child who longed for other worlds but I am no more a child for I have known fear I have learned to hate how tragic, then, is youth which lives with enemies, with gallows ropes. Yet, I still believe I only sleep today. that I'll wake up, a child again, and start to laugh and play. Hama Herchenberg, 14 years old..died December 18, 1943 Auschwitz Concentration camp.

The mural can be viewed at [2]

Comment: This mural has not been painted over. I just saw it at the Denver Airport near baggage claim on December 18, 2007. I had never seen it before, so I was stunned as I passed by it.

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Swords to plowshares

Children of the World Dream of Peace

This one is titled Children of the World Dream of Peace. It features amalgamated flags, half of one nation and half of another. A young Aryan-looking kid is beating a large sword into a plowshare- the sword does not look unlike that of "General Skeletor". Also note the toppled statue, with a similar face to the afforementioned figure, which is in the foreground. The dove, no longer impaled on the sword, has a girlfriend in this picture and is perched on the remains of the statue.

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Jesus raves

This mural focuses on a psychedelic plant, being prayed over by a halo-bearing figure that appears to be Jesus. People of all nations, with ridiculously overjoyed expressions on their faces, are stampeding to the center. The Aryan-looking kid from the previous mural is present, as is the Quetzalcoatl bird from the first mural.

To Jesus' left, a red-clad figure wearing an asian-style pointed hat is facing against the crowd with a menacing black claw pointed right into the face of a young girl clad in black and white vertical stripes, similar to a concentration camp uniform. The image is available at this source: [3]

This mural was removed.

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Biggest in North America

Denver International Airport is extremely big and equally expensive. The airport makes up roughly 1/3 of the area of the City of Denver. At 54 square miles, DIA is twice the size of Manhattan, and coincidentally, also about twice the size of Dallas-Fort Worth, the second largest airport in the United States.

It bears mentioning that at half DIA's size, DFW handles 35% more passengers and has more runways. DIA explains that its massive size, though expensive ($5.2 Billion!) allows for future growth and the ability to handle whatever the future of air travel might hold.

Further, at the time DIA was built, it had fewer runways and fewer gates than Stapleton, which it replaced, although in all fairness Stapleton was extremely cramped and had frequent weather delays due to unsafe runway spacing.

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Over-do everything

Denver Airport was definitely built to always be prepared. Each of DIA's six fuel tanks can store 65,000 barrels (2.72 Million gallons) of jet fuel [4], over 16 Million gallons total; enough to operate commerically for a week without resupply, or about as much fuel as all 5 carriers which participated in the first gulf war used in 3 weeks of flight operations [5].

Fuel Storage isn't the only thing the folks at DIA are paranoid about. The runways are all twice as thick as normal runways 4 or at least that's where they say all the concrete went.

There are other explanations though.

Although the site was relatively level, the construction project moved enough earth to make a hole 32 city blocks in size and a quarter mile deep Ibid.

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