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Part of the District of Wonders Network, featuring Starsuring Starship, Sofa, and Far-Fetched

Fables, everyone has a story in the District of and welcome. Our next stop on our cross-country tour is the Mile High City, Denver, Colorado. If you've ever flown into or out of Denver,

you've likely had a chance to experience one of the most infamous buildings in the state of Colorado

for yourself, the Denver International Airport. The horrors of airline food and endless security

lines aside, the Denver airport is rife

with tales of dark intentions and conspiracies of apocalyptic magnitude.

The airport began to draw attention long before it was even finished.

By the time it opened in February of 1995, it was 16 months

behind schedule and a whopping $2 billion over budget. Funny thing was, though, it wasn't immediately

evident to the general public where that much extra time and cost came from. But humans have a habit of filling

in the gaps in our understanding with our own stories and assumptions. And some were quick to form

their own ideas. Ideas, however, that didn't entirely come from nowhere. On March 19, 1994, almost a full year before it would finally open to the public,

a dedication ceremony was held at the Jepison terminal of the airport.

As part of that ceremony, a time capsule was placed in the terminal, covered by an inscribed

capstone.

Sounds normal enough, but part of the inscription on the capstone, beneath the dedication to

the people of Colorado in 1994, who will have the privilege of opening the capsule, are two symbols, a square and a compass,

framing a capital letter G. That just so happens to be the symbol of the Freemasons, probably one of

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