The year is 1994 and the brand-new Denver International Airport has just been completed. The project was a massive feat, becoming one of the largest airports in the US. Costing an estimated 4.8 billion dollars the project is the largest public works project in Colorado history (Information on Selected Financial Issues, 1) (Bryant). Being such a large project, you would be led to believe that the airport would have been well welcomed, however, there was one problem, Denver already had a fully functional airport. This fact has led many people to believe there is an alternative motive for building the airport. The most popular idea is that the airport was built as a cover for a large underground bunker built for some cataclysmic event (Hoeller). Many people also believe that the group responsible left clues in the form of time paintings and a time capsule. We will be looking into what is backing these beliefs.
Leo Tanguma is a painter from southern Texas and having grown up in a small town near Corpus Christi, his family felt a lot of racial discrimination (“INTERVIEW: Leo Tanguma”). As he said in an interview with Rachel Cole Dalamangas, “growing up in Beeville, Texas, a little town fifty miles north of Corpus Christi. Like many little towns in Texas we had very racist sheriffs and police that liked to keep Mexicans in our place. In our town it was a sheriff named, Vail Eniss” (“INTERVIEW: Leo Tanguma”). Leo goes on to describe how this affected his family and his community, how it led to death and brutality, and his art. In summary, Tanguma’s art came out of anger, but it transformed into an outlet for him and those around him, “I was going to draw, but before I could draw, somebody said, ‘Pollo, draw me killing the sheriff.’ Also, all the kids began to say, ‘Draw me too! Draw me too!’ So I started to draw the sheriff hanging or being stabbed” (“INTERVIEW: Leo Tanguma”). By far, the most popular alleged proof for this conspiracy is three paintings by Leo Tanguma. depicting an eerie seen of near self-extinction and rebirth.
Despite the life adversities of racial discrimination Leo faced in his childhood, he has managed to not only look past what has happened to him but also let if fuel his art in a positive way. “I’ve told my students, ‘We have to have a higher purpose with our art here, not just to sell it so people can take it and just decorate their homes, but do something more positive’” (“INTERVIEW: Leo Tanguma”). In this, you see how he feels about his art, that it should have purpose or meaning. “My activism was in painting murals and working with kids and so on” (“INTERVIEW: Leo Tanguma”). Leo Tanguma has devoted his career to spreading hope in his art, as well as shining light on ideas that rarely have light shown on them. going so far as too invite students to a correctional facility to paint their life stories and how they plan to fix their lives into two of his murals (“INTERVIEW: Leo Tanguma”). By seeing Leo in this light, you can see why his paintings may be a sign of what may be too come.
At the Denver International airport, there are several conspiracies fueled by several different sources. To many, the question is not whether there is a conspiracy, but which conspiracies are real. Is there an underground bunker underneath Denver international? As well as who built it and why.
The first and most popular conspiracy surrounding this infamous airport is that the government built a secret base under the airport to protect important people in the case of a world-shattering event (Ferrett). Tyler Glockner, a member of the secureteam10 group, explains that, “There has been a range of conspiracy theories, so called, about the Denver International Airport, the most known is that this Denver airport is likely a massive base” (Ferrett). This idea spawned from ‘Continuity of government’(Ferrett). Tyler explains, “‘Continuity of government’ is the idea of creating a procedure to make sure politicians can keep ruling if a nuclear war, or something equally as horrific, happens” (Ferrett). He continues to explain that only 1 year after this idea became popular the airport opened,” The airport opened a year later after going $2billion over budget, and almost straight away visitors claimed there was something strange about it” (Ferrett). This strange feeling only grows stronger as once you see the painting by Leo Tanguma. These Bizarre paintings are seen by some as a foretelling of what is to come.
A survey taken at a local college shows that 90% of the students who were asked whether they believed the government would hide something like this from the standard population said they believed they would. If they are willing to hide this from us it begs the question, “are they hiding anything else from us? And if so what?”. Which brings us to my second conspiracy that the government is hiding information on some unknown event to come. Tyler Glockner menschen this idea in his interview, “It’s almost as if they’ve built this airport with some sort of information that we don’t know about that something bad is going to happen in the near future.” (Ferrett). Many connect this theory with a time capsule located in the airport (Ferrett). The strange time capsule is an oddity doo too the fact that the group that commissioned it is not known to exist anywhere else (Ferrett). This has to lead many to see it as a cover for some unknown government or world group.
with Leo Tanguma impressionable painting skills, it is hard for some to believe that there is not some hidden meaning behind them. be it a warning to those who are to come, a prediction of what is to be by some secret group, or a beacon meant to bring people there for shelter in the wake of imminent destruction. because of the nature of this conspiracy, nothing will be for certain until that fateful day. leaving only one question left for the world to ask; is this the place where the world may be protected and saved or is this the location from which it will be destroyed.
citation:
Bryant, Adam. “Denver's New Airport Still a 'Field of Dreams'.” Newyork Times.
Dalamangas , Rachel. “INTERVIEW: Leo Tanguma.” INTERVIEW: Leo Tanguma | Zingmagazine, 1 June 2012, www.zingmagazine.com/drupal/node/2039.
Ferrett , Hannah. “Is There a Bunker under a US Airport to Save Leaders from an Apocalypse?” The Sun, The Sun, 3 Jan. 2018, www.thesun.co.uk/uncategorized/1229552/is-there-a-secret-bunker-hidden-beneath-a-us-airport-built-to-save-government-chiefs-from-the-apocalypse/.
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Insider, Sophie-Claire Hoeller Business. “The Darkest Conspiracy Theories about Denver's Bizarre Airport.” The Independent, Independent Digital News and Media, 26 June 2017, www.independent.co.uk/travel/the-darkest-conspiracy-theories-about-denvers-bizarre-airport-a7808376.html.
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