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Denver International Airport’s creepy ‘backrooms’ are going viral on social media

Jun 5, 2024, 3:56 PM | Updated: Jun 6, 2024, 6:29 am

This certainly isn’t going to help with all the conspiracy theories that Denver International Airport already has going…

A man recently went viral on TikTok for his first-hand account of DIA’s mysterious backrooms.

TikTok creator Hollow Hollis shared a video of himself navigating DIA in search of his gate just after midnight, and that’s when he accidentally finds the “backrooms.”

Honestly there’s nothing that creepy in the video, and the “backrooms” seem to be the extra gates the airport has for the smaller aircraft that fly out of the airport. but people are watching in groves as it has more than 18.7 million views at the time of publishing this article.

Here’s the video, but please be advised that it contains expletive language…

@hollow_hollis Mind you its 12:30 in the morning 😵‍💫#backrooms #conspiracy #denverairport ♬ Creepy and simple horror background music(1070744) – howlingindicator

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