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Is The Denver Airport The Creepiest One in The World?

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5 years ago

August 12, 2021

Creepy statues, a possessed Mustang, and eerie murals that depict Nazi-like world dominance: Welcome to the Denver International Airport (DIA).

When people travel they want a pleasant experience. Anxiety is high, fear can be a big problem and being trapped in a confined space with thousands of strangers is downright stressful. Hopefully, your airport is pleasant enough to distract you from all the tension. Not Denver International.

There have been many stories over the years about this creepy place and if you never heard them, well, we’re here to educate you.

Let’s start with the hell horse statue that guards the airport: The Blue Mustang. This 32-foot tall death-colored thoroughbred has been affectionately nicknamed “Bluecifer” for obvious reasons. Its towering countenance and threatening pose greet air travelers as they arrive, and no one is exactly sure what it represents.

Photo: Bugged Space

The artist behind the hellish steed, Luis Jiménez, was commissioned to create it back in 1992. It didn’t get erected until 2008.

Oh, and it killed its creator. A giant piece of the work fell on Jiménez during its production resulting in his death. Welcome to Denver. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

We’ve come across several articles that talk about the mysterious airport including something from the Thought Catalog which points out if you look at an areal view of the tarmacs, you’ll notice they are in the shape of a swastika. Although this ancient symbol wasn’t associated with evil until World War II in 1939, and considering DIA wasn’t constructed until 1995; it’s enough to make you wonder. Coincidence?

there's a creepy theory that the denver airport is shaped like a swastika pic.twitter.com/MKTVSY79mS

— Creepy Catalog (@CreepyCatalog) October 10, 2017

That same article also goes into brief detail about a rumored underground tunnel system that traverses the airport. Apparently, construction of the official site was delayed and nobody knew why until a worker came forward and said it was due to the development of large buildings they subsequently buried beforehand. Furthermore, in 2007, there was an unexplained event where the windshields of 13 planes cracked at the same time. Was it the weather? Was it birds? Was it an electromagnetic secret weapon in the bowels of the airport? Officially, nobody knows.

Now let’s talk about the murals that used to greet weary travelers as they made their way to the gate. Scary Gestapo-like ghouls dominate a post-apocalyptic world with automatic rifles and really large swords while earth’s population cowers in fear holding dead babies and marching toward what appears to be their deaths. This piece of art was removed in 2018 but is reportedly returning this year. Why?

Mark Frauenfelder — Thought Catalog

This could all tie in somehow this the airport’s financiers. You see, the airport has a plaque dedicated to the people who funded it, a group called “The New World Airport Commission.” Seems ominous enough right? Well, the fact that this group doesn’t actually exist is a bit concerning. And the fact that the slab is embossed with the symbol of the Freemasons, a notoriously elusive secret society, only adds to the creepiness.

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Creepier still are the “evil eyes” that follow you around DIA in the form of two devilish Gargoyles that sit above your head as you make your way to baggage claim. These creatures are seemingly the guardians of your luggage which is kind of a nice touch but as airport harbingers, with their monstrous appearance, they do nothing to calm an anxious traveler.

Terry Allen — City & County of Denver Department of Aviation

Of course, all of this is conjecture since people interpret art differently. The horse with its glowing red eyes and the woefully oppressive murals could all just be products of a creative mind. But given there is so much mystery beyond the creations of a few macabre works of art, the mysterious Denver International Airport stands as one of the creepiest in the world.

We’ll just have to wait and see in 2094. That’s the year a time capsule will be unearthed within the airport and perhaps all the conspiracy theories will finally be answered.

Header photo: Bugged Space

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The Evil Dead Burn Trailer Is Here and It Is Everything

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4 hours ago

April 21, 2026

Luna Gray

The teaser for Evil Dead Burn is attached to Lee Cronin’s The Mummy in theaters right now, which means you have to earn it. Go see The Mummy. You will probably enjoy that too.

Here is what we got. A young girl crawling across an apartment floor desperately trying to stay alive in a room with a Deadite. It is hard to tell, but the whole thing may be one continuous shot of her trying to get away from all of it. It is action packed, and it is gory, and ultraviolent in a way we have never seen in the franchise. For a teaser. That is a thesis statement. That is Sébastien Vaniček telling you exactly what kind of film this is going to be.

Evil Dead Burn opens July 10.

Why Vaniček Was the Right Call

The director is Sébastien Vaniček, who made Infested in 2023. Infested is a French spider horror film set entirely in a crumbling apartment building, and it is one of the better creature features of the last decade. It is relentless.

A single girl crawling across a dirty apartment floor with Deadites closing in is exactly the kind of scene Vaniček was built for. He does not need big spaces or big budgets. He needs a person, a threat, and no way out. That is Evil Dead. That has always been Evil Dead.

He co-wrote the script with Florent Bernard, his Infested collaborator. Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert produce through Ghost House Pictures. Bruce Campbell and Lee Cronin are executive producers. The whole institution showed up for this one.

What the Film Is About

A woman loses her husband in a car accident and goes to stay with her in-laws at their remote house. The in-laws find the Book of the Dead. You already know what happens after that. You have always known.

Souheila Yacoub leads the cast, joined by Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Tandi Wright, and George Pullar. The film shot in New Zealand between July and October 2025 and is the sixth installment in the Evil Dead series.

Evil Dead Rise proved the standalone approach works. It did not need you to have seen anything. Burn looks like it is doing the same thing and doing it in a filthier, more confined space, which is exactly where this franchise lives best. If the teaser is any indication, Vaniček understood the assignment from the first frame.

Evil Dead Wrath follows in 2028, directed by Francis Galluppi. The pipeline is full. I am not complaining.

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The Evil Dead Universe Now Includes a Mummy Film

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8 hours ago

April 21, 2026

Luna Gray

No one would blame you for missing it. You watched Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, a professor named Bixler showed up, you didn’t think twice about it, and you went home. That was the whole plan.

Then Cronin gave an interview to Collider where he explained what he did, which is the least subtle version of hiding something possible. The Mummy and Evil Dead share a universe now and its up to us to decide what that means.

The Name You Missed

Mark Mitchinson plays Professor Bixler in The Mummy. He is an Archaeologist. You know the type. Probably has a bad feeling about this, does not survive having a bad feeling about it.

If you watched Evil Dead Rise, that name might mean something. Bethany Bixler is Beth. The woman trying to hold her family together while her sister gets possessed in a Los Angeles apartment building and starts doing things that are deeply unpleasant to think about. Same last name.

Cronin’s exact words to Collider: “If you pay attention to the name of the archeology professor in the movie, he could be a distant relative of some key characters in Evil Dead Rise.”

He could be. The director put the name there on purpose and then talked about it in an interview. You can decide how ambiguous that is. I have already decided.

What the Evil Dead Canon Looks Like Now

Evil Dead Rise did not reboot anything when it came out in 2023. It continued the same line that Sam Raimi started in 1981 and that has since expanded to include the original trilogy, the 2013 remake, and Ash vs. Evil Dead. Cronin stepped in as steward of that whole thing.

The Deadites, the Necronomicon, and a journalist’s daughter who vanishes into the desert and comes back eight years later as something that no longer qualifies as a daughter now all share the same reality. That is a lot of mythology in one place and somehow none of it feels like it is crashing into anything else.

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The Practical Magic 2 Teaser Trailer Is Finally Here

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1 day ago

April 20, 2026

Luna Gray

The Practical Magic 2 teaser trailer is out, and it is worth taking a second to appreciate what we are actually looking at here. A film that bombed at the box office in 1998, fell short of recouping its $75 million budget, and got mixed reviews at best is now getting a sequel with its full original cast, a rebuilt set, and a room full of theater owners losing their minds at CinemaCon.

What Happened the First Time

The original Practical Magic came out in October 1998 and critics did not know what to do with it. It was part romantic comedy, part domestic abuse drama, part supernatural thriller, part crime story. The tonal whiplash was real, and the reviews reflected that. The film underperformed. Nobody called it a classic.

Then it became one anyway. The film found its audience over the following two decades, particularly among millennial women who responded to what it was actually doing underneath the genre mess. A film about women protecting each other, centered entirely on a bloodline of women, with a finale built around a community of women coming together.

What the Trailer Shows

Sandra Bullock opens the teaser in voiceover as Sally: “I’m sure you’ve heard of the Owens family. The ones from Massachusetts. The ones their neighbors whisper are witches.” Nicole Kidman is back as Gillian, settled into life with a black cat. The house on the cliff was rebuilt from scratch for the film.

Bullock said of returning: “Coming back didn’t feel like shooting a sequel. It felt like coming back home.” Given that the original cast and director were not involved in any franchise maintenance for twenty-eight years, that is something.

The Cast

Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest are both back as the aunts Frances and Jet. The film adds Joey King as Sally’s daughter. She uncovers buried family secrets and develops dark powers of her own. Maisie Williams, Xolo Maridueña, and Solly McLeod round out the new generation.

Practical Magic 2 opens September 11, 2026.