Denver Airport -- The Underground Tunnels: What Is Really Down There
Denver Airport -- The Underground Tunnels: What Is Really Down There
[edit | edit source]The Real Underground Infrastructure
[edit | edit source]Denver International Airport's underground infrastructure is genuinely extensive -- approximately 470,000 square feet of subsurface space spread across a complex of tunnels, trackways, and service areas beneath the terminals and concourses. This is not in dispute. What is disputed is what this infrastructure is for and whether it extends beyond what the airport acknowledges.
The documented underground systems at DEN:
| System | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Automated baggage tunnels | The original BAE system trackways; 21 miles of track; now used for manual baggage handling | Operational; baggage handling |
| Passenger underground train (A-Train) | Electric underground train connecting Jeppesen Terminal to Concourses A, B, and C; approximately 1 mile of tunnels | Fully operational; primary passenger connection between terminal and concourses |
| Service tunnels | Maintenance, utility, and service access corridors throughout the complex | Operational; routine airport maintenance |
| Baggage claim infrastructure | Conveyor systems connecting aircraft gates to baggage claim areas | Operational |
| Utility corridors | Power, communications, water, sewage, and other building services distribution | Operational |
The Media Tours
[edit | edit source]Denver International Airport has conducted numerous tours of its underground tunnel systems for journalists, documentary filmmakers, and interested parties. The consistent finding: tunnels full of baggage handling equipment, airport utility infrastructure, and the occasional employee. As airport spokeswoman Alex Renteria stated flatly: "They're not full of conspiracy. They're full of baggage."
Airport employees have reportedly been known to prank journalists and tour groups:
- Wearing lizard masks during tunnel portions of tours
- Drawing alien artwork on tunnel walls (in addition to other graffiti found there)
- Creating "evidence" that playfully confirmed the lizard-people theory
DEN's management has encouraged this playful engagement with the mythology.
The Lizard People Theory
[edit | edit source]The specific claim of subterranean reptilian entities -- "lizard people" -- beneath DEN draws primarily on David Icke's broader framework of reptilian humanoids secretly controlling human governments and institutions. In the DEN context, the claims include:
- Reptilian alien beings who have established a base beneath the airport
- A tunnel network specifically designed to accommodate these beings
- The murals and artwork as "messages" to initiates about the reptilian presence
- Government officials conducting meetings with these beings in the underground facilities
The evidence cited: blurry online videos (consistently of unknown origin); the lizard-mask-wearing employees during media tours (created by employees for entertainment); alien artwork on tunnel walls (created by employees or graffiti artists); the generally labyrinthine and inaccessible quality of the tunnels themselves.
The NORAD Tunnel Claim
[edit | edit source]One of the most physically extraordinary claims: a secret tunnel connecting DEN to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs -- approximately 90-100 miles south. The claimed tunnel would be:
- Longer than any tunnel ever constructed in human history (the record is the approximately 35-mile Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, which took 17 years to construct)
- Running beneath the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains
- Carrying some form of high-speed transport between the airport and the military installation
No credible evidence of such a tunnel exists. The engineering challenge would dwarf any construction project in history. No leaked documents, witness accounts, or physical surveys have produced supporting evidence. DEN officials have consistently denied it.
