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During my final Uber to the airport yesterday, I decided to learn about the Blue Mustang and its dark history.

Looming outside Denver’s airport, a 32-foot-tall mustang watches travellers come and go with its glowing red eyes fixed on the horizon. Commissioned by the city of Denver, The Blue Mustang, colloquially known as Blucifer, was meant to be a symbol of the West. Instead, it became a legend of misfortune when it turned on its own creator.

Artist Luis Jiménez was hired to design a sculpture representing the Midwest with a budget of $300K. The city originally wanted a buffalo stampede but scrapped the idea given the history of the species being hunted to near-extinction. Jiménez proposed a mustang instead, a symbol of the Midwest and a nod to early travel. The piece was inspired from a stallion he owned named Black Jack, a blue Appaloosa, with its glowing eyes paying tribute to his father’s work in a neon sign shop.

DEN Conspiracies Pt. 2 - sharing a few of my favourites

#1 New World Order
Denver International Airport opened in 1995 as a replacement for Stapleton, but it went $2B over budget, sparking rumours about what was really being built. A dedication capstone at the airport features a Masonic crest and credits members of the “New World Airport Commission,” an organization that does not exist.

#3 Morbid Murals

DEN has had its share of questionable art choices, including unsettling murals like this one that, IMO is easy to misinterpret. On the surface, you see a plague mask guy standing over dead children, stabbing a dove with his scimitar, and a ruined city fills the background. The murals have since been removed.

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