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The only people who really seemed into the horse were the conspiracy theorists, who proclaimed the statue to be the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse, the one symbolizing Death. Matters were not helped by the fact that, once the man who created Blucifer finished painting its head, the head fell on him and killed him.
For Coloradans using DIA in the late aughts, Blucifer quickly came to encapsulate everything we hated about the airport. Setting aside that it was “cursed,” the statue was unsettling to look at, cost well north of half a million dollars, and – despite the fact that no one remembered asking for it in the first place – arrived 13 years past due, like the actual Devil coming to collect just when you think he might have forgotten. And yet the tide began to turn in DIA’s favor.