Special Reports & Tweets - 20110923_SpecialReport_Alex
Aired: 2011-09-23
Duration: 04:15


=== Hidden Messages Creepily Revealed (03:43) ===

[00:00:03]  Is this the first time you've ever seen the mural?
[00:00:04]  No, actually I live here so I come through and check it out every now and then.
[00:00:09]  I've taken pictures, I read about it online, looked it up.
[00:00:13]  What do you think it means?
[00:00:16]  I can only tell you what I read.
[00:00:19]  Basically it seems like there's a soldier cutting through the dove of peace and his sword is an Arabian sword.
[00:00:26]  I'm not sure about the I think it's very well done.
[00:00:29]  It's impactful.
[00:00:30]  The color scheme is great.
[00:00:31]  And the tower here, very familiar to a lot of people.
[00:00:36]  Kind of looks like 911 towers.
[00:00:40]  I don't know, strange thing to have in this airport.
[00:00:41]  What are your thoughts when you see something like this?
[00:00:44]  I think it's very well done.
[00:00:45]  It's impactful.
[00:00:46]  The color scheme is great.
[00:00:49]  The theme seems a little austere for an airport.
[00:00:52]  You don't think there's a nefarious hidden agenda, hidden meaning behind it or anything
[00:00:57]  I don't know.
[00:00:57]  I've heard that theory a lot.
[00:01:00]  Maybe, you know, underground prisons under Denver or DIA, all that stuff.
[00:01:05]  Could be.
[00:01:05]  I'm a little skeptical.
[00:01:07]  So this is the first time you've ever seen this mural?
[00:01:09]  Yeah, the first time I've ever seen it.
[00:01:10]  Let's take a look.
[00:01:11]  I mean, what are your thoughts when you look at something like that?
[00:01:14]  Do you think it's kind of an odd mural to be put in an airport?
[00:01:18]  Not necessarily.
[00:01:19]  I think it explains a lot.
[00:01:21]  Okay, such as?
[00:01:22]  Such as just, you know, I mean, America and everything else.
[00:01:26]  There's a lot going on in the world right now, and it pretty much shows what's going on.
[00:01:32]  You know, there's a knight, he's taking care of things, there's people that are suffering, and he looks like he's taking over and taking care of it.
[00:01:40]  So he's like a protector, you think?
[00:01:42]  I think he's a protector, you know?
[00:01:44]  I mean, you're wearing a gas mask and you have a sword in your hand, what else are you doing?
[00:01:49]  Is this the first time you've ever seen the mural?
[00:01:51]  Yes it is.
[00:01:52]  I've seen it on the internet before.
[00:01:54]  Alright, so you've seen it on the internet and then I saw you turn the corner and you're like, oh my god, here it is.
[00:01:58]  So, alright, so what are your thoughts on it?
[00:02:01]  I've heard some theories where there's like an underground facility in this airport and it's just like really dark and kind of scary looking.
[00:02:09]  It is a little creepy looking.
[00:02:11]  Machine gun wielding.
[00:02:13]  And the crying innocence in the background.
[00:02:16]  Yeah, it's kind of creepy.
[00:02:17]  Like fleeing?
[00:02:19]  It's just, I mean, this is kind of sad, obviously.
[00:02:23]  A kid who died in Auschwitz, 14 years old, that, you know, basically their childhood was taken away from them through everything they went through, it looks like.
[00:02:34]  You know, they hate, they hate enemies, they hope that one day they'll be able to wake up and laugh again.
[00:02:42]  It's sad that there's people out there that think like that.
[00:02:45]  Some people say it's put here to kind of get Distract people from what really goes on in D.I.A.
[00:02:51]  Don't you think it's an odd place to put a mural like this in an international airport?
[00:02:56]  I mean, it's kind of weird, isn't it?
[00:02:57]  It is.
[00:02:58]  If you wanted to send a message to someone, I mean, it's kind of the best place.
[00:03:03]  So do you think this is more of an artistic endeavor, you know, with the symbolism and everything?
[00:03:07]  You know, this guy kind of looks like a Nazi, but is there any hidden meanings?
[00:03:11]  A dark hidden meaning?
[00:03:13]  Or is this more kind of an artistic piece, you know?
[00:03:17]  I think, I don't, I'm not someone who looks at things in a dark, hidden type of way, so to me, I don't look at it like that.
[00:03:25]  You know, the most disturbing piece of this whole thing is just that.
[00:03:29]  That's what gets me the most.
[00:03:30]  What about the rumors that there's a whole underground type of bunker here?

=== Construction's Constant Conundrum (00:44) ===

[00:03:34]  Have you heard of those as well?
[00:03:35]  I've heard of those.
[00:03:36]  Do you think there's any truth to that?
[00:03:39]  Definitely.
[00:03:40]  Possible.
[00:03:40]  More possible than what they give you on the news.
[00:03:43]  It looks funny the way that you can see when you're coming in.
[00:03:46]  You can see that there's construction's been over for years here, but there's construction everywhere, all over, going on, on the grounds of the airport.
[00:03:55]  Constantly, and you can see them actually working up, because once it's a hill, and they'll have a road that goes around it, and you come back a year later, and there's two roads, because the hill's kind of moved up, as if the hills are expanding upwards.
[00:04:07]  Do you think it's an odd place to have a mural like this in an international airport?
[00:04:11]  Absolutely.
[00:04:12]  Absolutely.
[00:04:13]  I don't know what its place is here, or why it's here.