 - The most terrifying 
 place in Denver 
 might just be the airport. 
 And no, we aren't talking 
 about long lines at the TSA, 
 we're talking about the 
 Illuminati, mother(beep). 
 Hello internet, I am Wil Fulton, 
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 We've got the Rocky Mountains 
 on our minds this week. 
 After all, Thrillist Travel  
 has just published an enormous 
 and comprehensive travel 
 guide on Denver, as part 
 of their yearlong "19 
 Best Places to Go in 2019" 
 package brought 
 to you by Expedia. 
 But, while my 
 colleagues spent their 
 time telling you how 
 awesome Denver is, you know, 
 all the great food, 
 all the great beer, 
 all the cool experiences, 
 I'm here to tell you 
 what they're frankly 
 too afraid to say. 
 That Denver International 
 Airport, opened in 1995 
 and consistently one of 
 the most highly trafficked 
 airports in the country, 
 is perhaps the epicenter 
 of modern American 
 conspiracy theories. 
 In fact, there's so many 
 separate conspiracy theories 
 that have bubbled out 
 of Denver Airport, 
 it's almost hard to 
 keep track of them all. 
 The airport runways 
 are allegedly aligned 
 in the shape of a swastika. 
 Apparently, underneath the 
 airport is an underground 
 bomb shelter for top 
 government officials 
 to hide out in case 
 of nuclear war. 
 Some people think there's 
 Satanic or Masonic 
 imagery scattered 
 around the building, 
 foretelling our inevitable 
 dystopian future. 
 Look, it's all hiding 
 the greater truth, 
 that something wicked lies 
 beneath the Denver airport. 
 Or, maybe that's all 
 a load of (beep). 
 Let's look into it. 
 First off, we have to mention 
 the frankly terrifying 
 giant blue horse that 
 greets everyone driving 
 into the airport, as 
 it's often studied 
 as a prime source of 
 conspiracy theories. 
 And, it's definitely 
 the most public. 
 The blue mustang with 
 glowing, red eyes has guarded 
 the nefarious 
 nickname Bluecifer 
 by locals, 
 and for good reason. 
 Not only does it look like 
 a stage prop from an '80s 
 B-horror movie, it kind 
 of acts like one too. 
 This statue actually killed 
 the dude who made it. 
 In 2006, Bluecifer was being 
 moved under the watchful 
 eye of the artist who 
 made it, Luis Jimenez. 
 Everything was going great, 
 until a giant piece of 
 the statue broke off and 
 severed an artery in his leg. 
 It was a wound that would 
 ultimately kill him. 
 And, this is all 
 true by the way. 
 This really happened. 
 And, it only fueled conspiracy 
 theorists who already had 
 some wild ideas about the 
 Denver airport, and the 
 potentially devilish things 
 that seemed to happen there. 
 This airport was 
 always controversial, 
 even before it was built. 
 Reportedly costing almost 
 5 billion dollars, 
 which was even more 
 money in the early '90s, 
 the airport was 
 seen by many locals 
 as a giant waste 
 of space and money. 
 They had another 
 international airport, 
 Stapleton, less 
 than 16 miles away. 
 And, by all accounts, 
 Stapleton was fine. 
 It seemed like this new, 
 incredibly pricey airport 
 was being built for a very 
 specific, maybe secret, reason. 
 Some contend that it is 
 indeed a bomb shelter, 
 or perhaps a clandestine 
 lunching pad for 
 nuclear weapons. 
 Still, others are 
 convinced it might 
 be some type of 
 Illuminati stronghold. 
 Let's look at some more 
 "evidence," and please note 
 my heavily accented air quotes 
 around the word "evidence." 
 There are gargoyles around 
 the building, which is spooky, 
 sure, and kinda weird for an 
 airport, but it's not exactly 
 a sign of some greater 
 evil, unless most 
 of your hats are of 
 the tinfoil variety. 
 But, then there are two colorful 
 and, frankly, eerie airport 
 murals that are apparently 
 loaded with Illuminati imagery. 
 They're definitely weird. 
 One is called the "Children 
 of the World Dream of Peace." 
 The other is called "In Peace 
 and Harmony with Nature." 
 The murals in question, quite 
 frankly, feature some images 
 that look a lot like Nazis in 
 gas masks, as well as man-made 
 sources of disaster and 
 destruction, thus stoking 
 the flames of conspiracy 
 theorists who think that 
 the airport is 
 designed specifically 
 as a housing unit for 
 the New World Order, 
 after the plan collapsed 
 in modern civilization. 
 Again, allegedly. 
 Look, all of this stuff is 
 definitely fun to think about, 
 we love conspiracy 
 theories even if most of us 
 in the back of our minds 
 know they aren't real. 
 And, if the Denver airport 
 really is part of a larger 
 worldwide conspiracy, why 
 then would the Illuminati, 
 or the New World 
 Order, or whoever is 
 pulling these strings, 
 deliberately advertise what 
 they're doing to the public? 
 At the end of the day, 
 this is just another fun, 
 quirky facet of Denver, 
 a fun, quirky city. 
 And also, there's a whole 
 lot more to this story. 
 So, you can check 
 out all the gritty, 
 suspect details 
 on Thrillist.com. 
 And, while you're there 
 filling your brain with endless 
 amounts of paranoia, also check 
 out our Denver DestiNATION 
 guide for some 
 actually real things 
 you can do in Mile High City. 
 The truth is out there 
 in Denver, people, 
 and so are some 
 great breweries, too. 
 Maybe focus on those. 
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