The first conspiracy theory claims that the artwork is trying to expose that the exorbitant amount of funds for the DIA were used to fund a network of tunnels and passages for the Freemasons or Illuminati for an impending apocalypse (Humphries 1). The original budget estimation of the total cost to build the DIA was $2.9 billion but that was blown out of the water with a final cost of $4.8 billion (Rubino 1). The cost of construction is extremely high for any large project but exceeding the original projection by almost double would cause anyone to question the true use of that money. According to the City of Denver financial report “Financing for DIA has included about $508 million from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in grants and facilities and equipment funds, and about $3.8 billion in bonds sold to the public.  Since May 1990, 12 airport revenue bond sales have been completed, with the most recent sale of $329.3 million of bonds in June 1995.  Funds from the June 1995 sale are primarily designated for refinancing bonds sold in 1984 and 1985.  Following the June 1995 bond sale, the City of Denver reported senior bonds payable totaling $3.481 billion plus subordinate\1 bonds payable totaling $300 million” (Denver International Airport: Information on Selected Financial Issues). Where did that money go and how did they manage to accumulate an additional $2 billion? A majority of the money went towards building a state-of-the-art baggage handling system that involved underground passages, but it was considered a failure and never completed (Rubino 1). “A Denver Post report from 1994 referred to the $186 million automated baggage system, designed by the since-acquired Dallas company BAE Automated Systems, as a “baggage mangler” (Rubino 1). This failure only led more people to believe the project was intentionally scrapped to cover up that the tunnels were actually for the Illuminati to escape in the event of an apocalypse (Humphries 1). To accommodate the loss and to continue the build more bonds were sold with plans to refinance these bonds, and to allocate future passenger facility charges to repay these bonds at lower rates (Denver International Airport: Information on Selected Financial Issues). The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation under its antifraud division regarding the claims about the faulty baggage claims system only to uncover that the system was faulty from the beginning and never properly tested (Wayne 1). What secrets are hiding in the tunnels? According to Alex Renteria "They're not full of conspiracy. They're full of baggage." (Humphries 1)