Is FRIDAY 13TH really unlucky? History of Friday 13th | How unlucky is Friday 13th? History Calling

[@HistoryCalling]

Are you superstitious about Friday 13th (or indeed anything else) and if so, why? Let me know below and check out my PATREON site for extra perks at www.patreon.com/historycalling Remember to SUBSCRIBE to my channel too.

[@robertdudley4017]

Friday 13 is just like any other day good luck or bad luck can and does happen on any given day of the week, thank you HC a very interesting subject,

[@donnicholas7552]

Nope. Friday the 13th is just another day.

[@katlynwebb8474]

Hey history calling, do you have a Facebook account? My parents don’t allow me to have an Instagram because it’s NOT as safe as other social media apps.

[@heatherordonez1490]

Knock on wood for luck/blessings.

[@HistoryCalling]

Hi Katlyn, no I'm afraid not. I decided to just have one social media account as it would take too much time to try to manage more than that and still interact with people on it. Don't worry about it if you can just watch the videos on KZbin though. I appreciate your support wherever you're able to give it and I completely understand your parents' concerns.

[@emilybarclay8831]

Not naming a 13th floor is so funny to me because you can call floor 14 floor 14 all you want but it’s still the 13th floor. If anything you’re just gonna upset the ghosts by confusing them 🤣

[@HistoryCalling]

Exactly. Refusing to name something 13 doesn't change the fact that it is 13. No comment on the ghosts though :-)

[@ffvvaacc]

I remember when I was a kid, elevators had no 13th floor button. It went from 12 to 14. (USA)

[@emilybarclay8831]

@@ffvvaacc i like to image they built a 13th floor and just kept it vacant lol

[@ItsJustLisa]

Not to mention that it would mess up firefighters battling a blaze from the outside of a building. Count the level stories, not the stupid labels.

[@catherinelindsay7437]

Reminds me of the curse of the 9th symphony among classical composers. Both Beethoven and Schubert died after writing their 9th symphonies and before they completed their 10th. Mahler wrote his 9th symphony then wrote Das Lied Von Der Erde which was structurally a symphony but was classed as a song cycle. After this he started writing his 10th symphony because he thought he'd beaten the curse but ended up dying anyway. It should probably be noted that Mahler was ostensibly the one who came up with this curse theory as well so perhaps there's a little bit of a self fulfilling prophecy in there?? 😆😆

[@Nana-vi4rd]

Well, being that it's Friday the 13th 2022, I'm 71 years old and since the late 80's I have had a very bad back. So bad I was on disability for years. I was a CNA (Certified Nurses Aide) for 31 years and tending to one of my patients injurer 2 of my disks. After two surgeries I ended up worse, spending most of my life in a wheelchair. Well, today, thanks be to God, and a good Doctor, my daughter. I stood up straight and walked about for over twenty minutes. Where before I was lucky to stand up for 2 to three minutes without pain. So this Friday the 13th has been a truly blessed day for me.

[@cynthiaadams2392]

🙏

[@HistoryCalling]

That's wonderful that you're able to get up and walk about again. Congratulations :-)

[@G8oo8N8]

Glad to hear your walking and working these muscles and walk..respect to you and God bless ya .. :)

[@jasonderr377]

Even if these types of videos don't get the views you would expect, I love them and am glad you put them out.

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you :-)

[@dearoldbiddy1363]

Hear! hear! One of my favorite videos is Hy Brasil which I understand hasn't been very popular. For me this channel has the right mix of topics. There is a focus on a certain period of history and location but then there is a nice change-up every once in a while.

[@gothica64]

Interesting to see how the letters FRIDAY add up to 13 points for Scrabble. Also, how clever of you to have a video that is the palindrome number 13:31 in length. Was that deliberate?

[@HistoryCalling]

I wasn't deliberately aiming for 13 minutes, but when I saw how close it was to 13.31, I did then try to get it to land there, yes. I wasn't sure anyone would notice actually so well done :-)

[@patricianunes3521]

I watched this video on Sunday 15/10/23!

[@marshavilkas3512]

I was born on Friday the 13th and have been pretty blessed thus far:)

[@HistoryCalling]

Glad to hear it :-) There's really nothing to the superstition you'll be glad to know.

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

I was born on Thursday the 13th, but my birthday does of course fall on Fridays sometimes. Never had a problem. 😂

[@biddylove6373]

I turned 13 on a Friday 13th. 13 has been my 'lucky' number all my life. I'm now 73.

[@8pelagic610]

If you look at a street map of Santa Monica, California, you will see that they have "Euclid" Street in place of 13th Street. This is a clever indirect reference to thirteen through the number of texts Euclid wrote on math, and a set of numbers named for Euclid.

[@peter_bazinet]

I find this video very interesting as I've always considered Friday the 13th my lucky day. I married on Friday the 13th. Something wonderful always happens on this day and it already has today. A friend I loaned a great deal of money to several years ago, and I haven't heard from since, just delivered the money to me this morning. I'm several thousand dollars happier now. I'm not saying that it's a "lucky" day for me, but it's never been a bad luck day.

[@HistoryCalling]

Oh wow, that's wonderful. Enjoy deciding what to spend it on :-)

[@ElysiaMaerda]

One of my aunt's was born on March 13th and she loves it when it falls on a Friday. She feels it brings her good luck.

[@jesileigh]

I've always loved the number 13 and consider Friday the 13th as a lucky day for myself. I do remember being wheeled in for emergency surgery once and noticing they didn't have an OR #13--just 11, 12, 14... so when they wheeled me into #14 I said "So technically this *is* the 13th room then?" and there was some nervous laughter before they put me under XD

[@HistoryCalling]

Oh wow, I'm sure nervous laughter is just what you wanted to hear at a moment like that! (I'm kidding of course). Obviously your surgery went well though, which is brilliant :-)

[@jesileigh]

@@HistoryCalling it went swimmingly and here I am 15 years later! Another win for the number 13! :)

[@mikedesantis1071]

Growing up in New York City, not having a 13th floor was totally normal. I haven't thought about it though in decades, until watching your video.

[@ffvvaacc]

Same!! I don’t suppose it’s done anymore, but it certainly was normal when I was a kid!

[@HistoryCalling]

Yes, I've seen a few people (including other New Yorkers) saying that here in the comments. The superstition must still be going strong in some parts.

[@lamemechose7072]

I lived in a large apartment building in NYC (built in 1951) that separated the two elevators by “odd” and “even” floors. The physical 13th story was labeled “14”, as were all the apartments on it (14A, 14B, etc). On the “odd” elevator after floors 9 & 11 was 14! I lived on an odd floor and it really threw me the first time I noticed an “even” floor on the “odd” elevator!

[@spoosieoopsie1616]

My parents got their marriage license on Friday the 13th. They were married over 50 years. They considered Friday the 13th a very lucky day!

[@HistoryCalling]

Yeah, it's not even an old superstition. Just something the Victorians dragged us all into :-)

[@CassiBlack]

My dad visited China for work frequently over the last 15 years, and found that they often would not have a thirteenth floor in many of their sky rises to appease their western visitors. Floors with the number 4 (associated with death in their traditions) would also be skipped. I’ve also heard that sailors will avoid leaving ports on a Friday. Though I’m not sure how far back this belief dates. Personally, I’ve adopted the number 13 as my favorite/lucky number somewhat in defiance of superstition. While my luck tends to be lacking, lol, I’ve never noticed any connections to Fridays or thirteens, so maybe it really is lucky for me!

[@IMBlakeley]

I live in a country with a high population of ethnic Chinese, get that, normally it is not skipped by replaced i.e. in my Condo the lift goes to floors 13a, 23a etc.

[@dusktildawn6232]

Being French, I can testify that 13 or Friday 13th are taken quite seriously here. Specialy with the elderly. I remember family dinners where we would count how many family members would be around the table. If it happened to be 13, one of the grandmothers would not come to make sure we were only 12. Or we would invite someone else to join in order to be 14. I'd say it tends to disapear with the younger generations.

[@G8oo8N8]

I am from Germany and growing up in Europe everyone here is superstitious as well and this is where I learned all these things. Now in 2023 at 37 years old I look back and KNOW non of this is true. But is the culture and I can concur what your saying brother.

[@miyannapittman5580]

One of my friends turned thirteen on Friday the Thirteenth of the 12th month. I remember everyone teased her badly. I've always loved the number thirteen, and Friday was the first day of the weekend for our school.

[@eliscanfield3913]

My black cat wants you to know that dates are weird, made-up conventions among humans and so don't really exist, and also that right now is an excellent time for a snack

[@HistoryCalling]

I agree on all fronts :-)

[@terriv9002]

The cats I know think any time is snack time.

[@kayodewa]

Very wise cat after my own heart ❤

[@ItsJustLisa]

When is it *not* an excellent time for a snack?

[@marymoor9293]

My black cat Pearl agrees with you, as she yet again teleports into the garden.

[@JennyTolios]

You pronounced "Paraskevidekatriaphobia" perfectly! 👏 Kindest regards, a Greek who also shudders trying to pronounce this word! Thank you for another brilliantly entertaining video. 💖🇬🇷💖🇬🇷

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you so much. I was worried any Greek speakers would be out to get me after I tried to say that word.

[@JennyTolios]

@@HistoryCalling We really don't make it easy...for some reason we Greeks like to use as many letters in any given word as possible! 😄 Looking forward to your next upload. 💖

[@roscluaran]

Great 13 minute video on Friday the 13th!✨

[@markadams7046]

Yes, an unlucky incident happened to Apollo 13, but an even more unlucky incident happened to Apollo 1 where the astronauts all died a horrible death. Also, the people who made the Friday The 13th movie probably didn't feel unlucky when the profits from the movie started rolling in.

[@HistoryCalling]

Exactly. Apollo 13's astronauts were so lucky by comparison.

[@markadams7046]

@@HistoryCalling by the way, I'm a 13th generation Adams in America and the son of a mother who was the youngest of 13 children, and I was born on a Friday.

[@HistoryCalling]

You should reform the Thirteen Club and become its President :-)

[@annmoore6678]

@@HistoryCalling He already has two presidents in h is family tree. Plus some important writers!

[@SurferJoe1]

Though I'm not particularly superstitious, I have generally avoided handling or buying the Hope diamond on Friday the thirteenth. I also try not to break into Tut's tomb on that particular day or marry into the Kennedy family. But maybe I'm just being silly.

[@JulesssRules]

Hahaha!!!

[@AnnaB939603]

Another great and well researched video for us! Thank you. I’d heard about Friday the 13th having something to do with the Templars but didn’t know what.

[@jillkearns525]

Really enjoying all your episodes! Have you ever thought of also releasing these episodes as a podcast so people can listen on the go?

[@HistoryCalling]

I briefly debated it, but there's no financial incentive unfortunately and in quite a lot of cases you need to be able to see images I'm talking about.

[@ellieargent7221]

@@HistoryCalling I love listening to your videos when making pottery, id be obsessed with a podcast but will of course still play your videos if a podcast is a no go

[@susannpatton2893]

She would need to speak up. The volume of her voice is too low. I'm hearing impaired and seriously have to crank up the volume, when the music played after the intro, I jumped because it was soooo much louder than her voice.

[@susannpatton2893]

Excuse me but I had learned that Friday the 13th was due to the Catholic church killing the Knights Templar on a Friday and it was the date of the 13th in the year 1307.

[@hemerafloyd]

The fact that you got the video to 13 minutes and 31 seconds is really impressive or maybe it was a coincidence?

[@HistoryCalling]

I say that it was very close to that number (which was a coincidence) and then made an effort to get it right on 13.31.

[@Davanthall]

I absolutely love that this video is 13 minutes long..…did you do that on purpose?

[@HistoryCalling]

I wasn't deliberately aiming for 13 minutes, but when I saw how close it was to 13.31, I did then try to get it to land there so that the numbers would mirror each other. 13.13 would have been better, but you can't have everything I suppose. Well done for noticing though :-)

[@nicolebowman8509]

13 can also be found in the original "Sleeping Beauty" story, 12 good fairies were invited to the princess' christening to be her godmother's, fairy #13 was not invited. Upon arriving she got a silver dinner plate whereas the first 12 received a gold dinner plate. One movie I refuse to watch a second time is "13 Ghosts" despite having seen things far more frightening.

[@allisone7472]

I worked as a Security Guard at a complex with 7 office towers. Only 2 of them had a 13th floor. The oldest building was built in the early 70's and the youngest was built in the early 90's. The newer buildings were the ones that did have 13th floors. It was clearly a concern for a lot of people for a long time.

[@natylopez5]

Iw as just talking about this with a friend the other day. It's kind of strange that here in my country, Argentina, it's not so much Friday 13th which is seen as bad luck, but rather Tuesday 13th. I wonder why.

[@HistoryCalling]

Interesting. There are different numbers and days which are considered (un)lucky all over the world. I think it just goes to show that it's a social construct, not based on anything tangible.

[@vickiewallace415]

Thank you History Calling!!!

[@HistoryCalling]

And THANK YOU very much for your generous donation Vickie. It's much appreciated :-)

[@stacywiebe4828]

I have relatives that live in a high rise building on the 13th floor in St. Louis, MO. We actually had someone just last night ask us on the elevator if it was spooky to be on that floor. It is, but more for the fact that it is a former hospital built in the early 1900s instead of the number of the floor.

[@Atm0111]

Such a great video! I've always wondered where Friday the 13th superstition came from 😱🤪 thanks HS 💜

[@kitman3]

the bad luck controversy is very similar to the belief violence and crime increasing during a full moon - interesting I did not realize how old this belief is - I always thought it came from the french king rounding up the Knights Templar and burning them on Fri. 13th. Thanks as usual very informative!!!

[@sarahwright4104]

My parents were married on Friday the 13th. They had a good marriage and raised four well adjusted hard working kids.

[@kattlady1]

Happy Friday 13th, I brought my new born son home on this day in 1996 , and it's been good for me ever since..

[@HistoryCalling]

Aww, that's a nice story. There's really nothing to the superstition. It's not even that old.

[@moiramarriott4403]

Wanted to like but you have 13 so dudn't want to change it!!

[@rycoli]

Always fun on this channel! Thanks 😊 Happy Friday

[@JenneeAmell]

Under the Gregorian calendar, Catherine Howard was also beheaded on Friday the 13th.

[@vickiewallace415]

So so so HAPPY when your videos come out!! I’m wondering if I can wait until next Friday!!

[@HistoryCalling]

Haha, thank you. I wish I could do more than one a week, but they're just too labour intensive I'm afraid.

[@vickiewallace415]

@@HistoryCalling it shows! I’m just whining…no actual complaint here!!!!

[@Canalcoholic]

I have successfully home brewed a ‘Triskaidekaphobeer’ on Friday 13ths with all weights and volumes in 13s. Now you tell me I’ve got to rename my recipe.

[@HistoryCalling]

Sorry! Guess you've fallen victim to the bad luck :-)

[@jriedesel]

I started going with the man who has been my husband for 52 years on Friday the 13th. We always celebrate ever Friday the 13th.

[@HistoryCalling]

Aww, that's one of the nicest stories I've read about the date :-)

[@classyclassical7407]

I don't change my life when I realise it's Friday 13th but the superstition does cross my mind for a few seconds on the day.

[@HistoryCalling]

Same here :-)

[@shannonharder5049]

I just ranked 13th in a video game while watching this in the background 😂

[@patrickc9586]

Swear down this is my favourite KZbin Channel! Another brilliant upload! ✊🏻 well done, and most importantly, thank you!

[@HistoryCalling]

Thanks Patrick :-)

[@JoRiver11]

I think that the Dan Brown connection was one that he lifted from previous writers (like much of the rest of his book) though it’s been so many years since I’ve read them that I don’t remember for sure. In any case, when I came across that idea, I didn’t interpret it as reinforcing the superstition so much as dispelling it by showing where the association may have come from. Maybe that depends on the reader though.

[@leticiagarcia9025]

Interesting topic. I don’t see Friday the 13th as curse. It’s just a regular day to me. When I worked in the ER on Friday the 13th, I noticed a high flow of patients. I just shrug it to just another busy day. I also received a high flow of patients during a full moon. I think it’s how people perceive these dates. On an episode of Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch, he was saying that an airline doesn’t have a 13th row. Thank you for a well detailed video. Have a great weekend.

[@HistoryCalling]

Yes, I think people perceive it as unlucky and that affects their behaviour sometimes, but I don't think the day itself has any real power. I love Sherlock too! :-)

[@ennanitsua]

My dad's building is from the '60s and doesn't have a 13th floor. I've always thought it seemed silly, since the numbered 14th floor is still actually the 13th, whatever you call it.

[@HistoryCalling]

I know. Refusing to call it the 13th floor doesn't actually change the fact that it is. It just shows how ingrained these superstitions are though.

[@terryroots5023]

There are similar myths regarding full moons, it is common to hear that people with dementia or psychosis would become unsettled at the full moon, and there is all that stuff about werewolves . A video on lunacy, perhaps?

[@elbaestridge6503]

Thank you for this interesting video.

[@MarzbarNZ]

My grandfather used to call for Bingo. I've always remembered he called; '13 lucky for some'😊

[@dannieandrews]

I was born on a Friday 13th, so the superstition surrounding it has never bothered me (though it did bother my mum when she was in labour 😂). The only thing I've found I'm superstitious about is saluting a lone magpie to counteract the 'one for sorrow' of the rhyme. I'm not sure *why* but whenever I know of someone having a baby, I find I see clusters of three or four of them, and it does always correctly hint at the baby's gender. Logically, I know it's coincidence, but I don't wanna risk it.

[@HistoryCalling]

Your poor mum. Like she didn't have enough to worry about at that particular moment :-)

[@Wee_Catalyst]

“Making it all the Victorians’ fault” 🤣🤣🤣 Cute, widely applicable ☺️

[@Lucius1958]

*"Friday the 13th come goozin' on like the Trump of Doom, its dread splayfoot fingers all crutchery an' clawn!"* - Churchy La Femme, from the comic strip "Pogo" 🤣 Churchy was deathly afraid of Friday the 13th... even if it came on a Tuesday.

[@bevinboulder5039]

Another good video, as usual. I do have a tiny niggle though. As a student of history since the 1960s I can attest that the idea that the arrest of the Knights Templar on Friday 13, 1307 as a reason for the fear of the day in general was around long before Dan Brown and the Da Vinci Code. I did just look up the date on the "What day of the week was it" website and it lists it as a Thursday. Wikipedia does say the raid was overnight so that would explain that discrepancy. Just thought it was worth mentioning. Thanks!

[@HistoryCalling]

At some point I'll maybe do a Knights Templar video actually and dig into it in more detail. I just got a book on them actually :-)

[@bevinboulder5039]

@@HistoryCalling Oh, cool!

[@SleepyAE31]

No superstition for me! My partner and I started dating on a Friday the 13th and we're about to celebrate our 18th anniversary this summer, so I think it's a pretty lucky/special day! As always, thank you for these wonderful videos; I look forward to every Friday because of them!

[@kimidoodles]

Same for us, except this year is 14 years.

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you and it's lovely to read a positive Friday 13th story :-)

[@ahuddleston6512]

You forgot to mention Jason from the films 😜 A few years back on Friday the 13th we had a business meeting 13 of us got into the lift to go to the 13th floor at 13:00. We ended up getting stuck in the lift with 2 claustrophobics that one guy sweet talked into not taking the stairs. We had to try to calm them down and try to prevent one from having a panic attack and the other one puking. It was so odd....

[@HistoryCalling]

That sounds like a stressful afternoon, but it does make for a great story at least :-)

[@etmg221]

Love your videos! I always learn something new!

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you :-)

[@mariavf5492]

Love your videos, great work. You will also find that aeroplanes do not have row 13. Check it out the next time you're boarding! ;-)

[@stephanieking4444]

I really love the irony of a club meant to repel superstitions inadvertently spurring one. From personal experience, as I have connections in both Britain and France, unease about having 13 people at dinner is regularly mentioned (sarcastically or otherwise) by both sides of the Channel.

[@vintagegal541]

Hi History Calling, I live in a 4 story apartment building build in 1931. I noticed that despite having 13 apartments on each floor, the unit numbers skip from, for example, 111, 112 to 114. No 113. That goes for all 4 floors.

[@HistoryCalling]

Isn't that funny, that there would be 13 apartments on each floor, yet the unit numbers skip?

[@vintagegal541]

@@HistoryCalling I know, right? When I first moved in almost 4 1/2 years ago, I immediately thought of buildings that decline the 13th floor. My work building did claim the 13th floor though. Have a good day!

[@MichelleBruce-lo4oc]

Hi, good morning awesome live history video I enjoyed it. How are you doing? Im doing well and so is my cat Benjamin. Have a great weekend see you next video 😊

[@amylin5062]

When my husband and I went on a cruise in 2022, I was surprised to find that, on board the ship, there was no level 13. Our cabin was on level 12, and we ate breakfast each morning in the buffet which was marked level 15…but it was only 2 levels above our cabin, the level above ours being 14. I didn’t know that superstition still held so much sway! I once worked at a firm, helping to onboard new employees. Everyone was assigned numbers, in chronological order. When I emailed one new (much sought after and influential) employee that his number was 13, not only did I get a phone call from him personally within minutes, but he called my boss, demanding his number be changed. I changed his number to 14, but I was astonished that an educated, experienced man like him would have a meltdown over the number 13. My family’s just not superstitious - my brother and sister-in-law got engaged on a Friday the 13th, and they labeled their picture “Our Lucky Day”. 😂

[@davidlancaster8152]

You did excellent pronouncing the phobia. Has to be the most convoluted set of consonants I've seen in one place. Without your definition I would have guessed it was fear of underwear. I like this episode alot and enjoy your unusual tangent episodes. Good work. Please keep doing your thing. Lvya much. Here's to the next 100K subs.😊

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you. Yes, it was awful trying to figure out how to say that and of course there were several re-recordings to get it right (or what I think is right).

[@Barbara_DocensHistoria]

I live in Italy and the Italians have a strange relationship with the number 13. Here also, they won't set 13 places at the dinner table, but otherwise, it's actually considered a lucky number. The term "fare 13 (tredici)" means to win big. In Neapolitan symbology/numerology, 13 also corresponds to Saint Anthony, one of the patron saints of the country. Rather, Friday the 17th is considered back luck in Italy. Legend has it, in ancient Roman tradition, the word "VIXI (I lived)" was written on gravestones and it is an anagram of 17 (XVII). So, they associated the number 17 with death. Friday, of course, is associated with Good Friday and the crucifixion of Jesus. Also, according to Neapolitan symbology, the number 17 corresponds to disgrace and bad luck. Wonderful video, keep up the good work!

[@HistoryCalling]

Hi Barbara. That was such an interesting comment. Thank you for sharing your knowledge of Italian superstitions. I've learned some new things :-)

[@blackbeardmagic3185]

Best video on this subject! I'm a magician who's putting together a Fri13 magic show u gave me a lot for my monologue. Thank you

[@HistoryCalling]

You're very welcome. Good luck with your show. :-)

[@spicencens7725]

You mentioned the Knights Templar in the year 1307. King Philip of France, with his consent of Pope Clement V, falsly accused the Order of the Knights Templar of heresy to relieve his debts to them. They were tortured into confession and burned at the state. I just always thought it a fun day to mess with people! Back in the late 70s, while in high school, worked in a building we called the computer card. It did not have a 13th floor. That's probably when I heard of the fear of the #13. Good times😂

[@susanfulbright2726]

I have always heard 13 at dinner is especially bad, but an odd number is in poor taste. A friend's mom once canceled a party because my friend couldn't find another guest but refused to uninvited one.

[@HistoryCalling]

Gosh, that's quite extreme :-)

[@alieganhouse2442]

I totally forgot even yesterday was Friday the 13th lol

[@jenniferdevlin2805]

Not superstitious being born on Halloween 🎃 is bad enough with a surname like mine lol 😂. Love your content just too busy to watch everything on the day its uploaded xx. Thanks History Calling.

[@ThrupleQuashimodo]

Fantastic video.

[@mariabradley5585]

It's true. In NY, and USA, most buildings skip the #13 in elevators.

[@spontaneous_kat]

Love your content!!

[@ns-wz1mx]

love this video!!! i’ve never lived in a high rise but i know in America a lot of big buildings don’t have the 13th floor especially hotels

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you. It was a fun one to research :-)

[@ns-wz1mx]

@@HistoryCalling absolutely!!

[@mariannehay4209]

Love how you pronounced that! Great video. Fri 13 are my lucky days. Lol. A floor by any other name is still the 13th. Heehee.

[@ashleighmielke4430]

I'm very superstitious, even though I know it makes zero sense. My mum was raised very superstitious so it's been passed on to me. My mum is from northern Ireland and she got it from her mum so I made the assumption that it was an Irish thing 🤣. Although it is fits very nicely with my OCD 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@HistoryCalling]

Oh there are lots of superstitions here, so I understand where your mum is coming from, though we do also talk about 'the luck of the Irish'.

[@kazoolibra7322]

I see irish heritage as strongly associated with superstition. It has come come down thru my ancestors also!! A little OCD in my family as well...ha!

[@mirandamom1346]

My grandfather would never sit down to a table where he would make 13, and he was of Irish heritage 🤔

[@Bus_Driver_Jay]

I tend to find any Friday the 13ths in September to be rather lucky as it would be my birthday! Also I thought you said Paraskevidekatriaphobia beautifully! I don’t live in a high rise building, but I do drive coaches. 13 meter long coaches are less likely to sell than a 12m or 14m. Some companies won’t give the option full stop!

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you :-) The word was a total nightmare though!

[@Bus_Driver_Jay]

@@HistoryCalling I had to quadruple check just writing it in the comment haha

[@angelicagaldos]

Happy Friday the 13TH. I'm not superstitious about Friday the 13TH. Plus I have two indoor black cats and one stray black cat.

[@HistoryCalling]

You would have been a good member of the Thirteen Club :-)

[@angelicagaldos]

@@HistoryCalling Sounds like a cool club to join. I would a good member. I am glad to be part of History Calling fan club.

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you and I'm glad to have you :-)

[@angelicagaldos]

@@HistoryCalling you're very welcome. 🌸

[@pamsharpe60]

It was definitely unlucky for my late husband. He was diagnosed with terminal cancer on Friday April 13th, 2012.

[@HistoryCalling]

Oh dear. I'm so sorry to read that :-(

[@sherischmitz3652]

My first apartment was in an older building (1920’s) that was missing a 13th floor.

[@cmath81]

When you realise this video is 13:31 long… spooky!

[@Spitta504TV]

9:01 Maybe its just me, but that building in the background looks like a giant original Nintendo. crazy

[@carolineplanting6204]

My father forgot my sister's 13th birthday at a Friday the 13th 1961. So very unlucky day for her. 😂

[@markwoods1504]

I trained as a Hotel Manager originally and I never worked in any hotel or restaurant that had a Room 13 or table 13

[@carolinegreenwell9086]

this video is worthy of an April Fools prank (now how did April Fools start - do that one next year !!)

[@NinaBenski]

13 min long video, well played!

[@selinapersaud7629]

Another really funny thing is that most people in my Indian family have all gotten married on Fridays, including my brother who got married about a month ago. We have the Hindu ceremony on Friday, the reception usually the Saturday after or sometimes A week after on the following Saturday, And finally A more intimate gathering happens on the Sunday before the wedding couple leave for their honeymoon. If Friday is unlucky that’s probably means we’re all cursed LOL, Or at least those of us who have gotten married.

[@HistoryCalling]

Nah, don't worry. You're all fine :-)

[@naomiskilling1093]

Okay I had heard that 13 was unlucky but never that Fridays themselves were unlucky. Generally I'm with people that Friday is a good day because it was the start of the weekend XD I dunno if this one came up in your research but there has been a viral post on Tumblr (yes, I am a cringe Tumblr user) where they claimed Friday 13th was considered unlucky because that date was especially important to the goddess Freya. Since she was the Norse goddess of love it apparently involved a lot of naughty stuff and when Christianity came along it therefore demonised it as the unluckiest day. Probably untrue but thought I'd throw that one in there too.

[@HistoryCalling]

I think Freya might have been another name for Frigg actually, so that ties in nicely with my research on her (Frigg).

[@stevejarrettnc]

In the early 80’s…. It was an awful time for me, during 3 Friday the 13ths in a row. First one, I was driving to work, it was rainy and misty and a deer hit me while I was driving 55 mph. It hit on the right front bumper and it ruined the front bumper, tore off my mirror, crushed the passenger door all the way to the back bumper…. Second Friday the 13th, I got a very bad diagnosis from my doctor and had to have emergency surgery…. Third one, I was driving in the downtown area where I live and was doing 30-35 mph down a city street, where a car pulled out without looking and hit the right front bumper of my car, again, all the way down the left side of my car….. There were three or four years after that, when I took a vacation day on Friday the 13th after that to not put myself at risk.

[@HistoryCalling]

Oh dear :-( I suppose you could argue as well though that you survived all of those incidents, which was very fortunate, but still, I can understand why you chose to take a little Friday 13th holiday for a while.

[@tsundear1731]

When I lived in a high rise there was no 13th floor. Many hotels I have stayed in on the east coast (US) do not have a 13th floor. It's really common for it to be skipped.

[@LBGirl1988]

Live on the MS Gulf Coast. The hotels and casinos I have paid attention to as well as one bank buildings have a 13th floor obviously but is labeled as "14." The bank building was built in either the 70s or 80s and most of the casinos and hotels were built from 1990s-mid-2000s. Eeek!

[@mmmamamamysharona]

In Spain the unlucky day is Tuesday 13th, no idea why. Tuesday is thought to be a bad day for weddings and journeys, but no one pays a lot of attention to this anyway. We had a very successful comedic duo who were called Tuesday 13th in fact.

[@cindyfrye3026]

The 13 guests at the last supper superstition is the first person to leave not the last to arrive, according to Harry Potter books.

[@Haffina]

I got married on Friday the 13th. We did end up divorced, but we also ended up remarried years later, so I doubt it had anything to do with the date we got married. We only picked that day because it was the day before my hubby's birthday and the registry office wasn't open on a Saturday.

[@nathanfisher1826]

Nice, well done!

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you :-)

[@dburton2765]

That was a fun video. Thanks! xx

[@HistoryCalling]

You're welcome. It was fun to research too :-)

[@vernon2542]

I'm not superstitious, and that was a great video never knew there was a word for the fear of Friday the 13th

[@HistoryCalling]

Me neither until I found myself having to say it (cue a lot of checking online pronunciation guides) and I still don't know if I said it correctly).

[@Jason.cbr1000rr]

Its a lucky day for me in the sense that a lot of surprising positive things happens to me that day 😄😇

[@Yeoman1346]

An unrelated question to your video. What do you know about Herne the Hunter. Trying to research the subject from Southern California is a bit difficult to say the least. I had read a number of years ago that Herne was the Kings huntsman for Windsor woods. That he had gotten mortally wounded and was taken to a cottage in the woods where a witch healed him but that he would lose his abilities to hunt. In doing so he became depressed and hung himself. Coming back later as an apparition calling his fellow hunters to follow him. Now I read all kinds of versions. Do you know much about the legend? Is there someplace I can look this up? Thank you

[@johnslaughter5475]

A Baker's Dozen is very good. 😊 I've been trying to find if Christ's death might've been on a Friday the 13th. Assuming that he was born anywhere from 8 BC to 4 BC (not likely), and he was 33 at the time of his crucifixion, this would make the year of crucifixion from 25 AD to 29 AD. Even using google, I just can't pin down when Passover was in those years. I love your work. I've always had an interest in English history (currently reading "The White Ship"). A king worthy of your talents would be Edward II. Edward I almost bankrupted England building so many castles. I'll be looking forward to next week's episode.

[@HistoryCalling]

A Baker's dozen is indeed very good. I don't know about Jesus' death beyond the association with Friday I'm afraid. See you next week :-)

[@hollyp3276]

Happy Friday. I've never really been superstitious of this date. I've always liked the number.

[@HistoryCalling]

As does Taylor Swift apparently, so you're in good company :-)

[@markadams7046]

I know, seems like in the modern age most people seem to think Friday is an awesome day, because it's the last day of the work week, and they can't wait for Friday to get here.

[@HistoryCalling]

Exactly. I suppose it helps that we don't have routine executions any more mind you (at least not in my country anyway!)

[@markadams7046]

@@HistoryCalling We still have executions in America, they just aren't limited to Fridays.

[@04straw]

When I was a state employee years ago, we had one guy who refused to work on Friday the 13th.

[@christmasina]

What a fun video!

[@MacP2990]

Right!! Learned so much ❤

[@littlemissmel88]

I'm not terribly superstitious of Friday the 13th, but work always seem a little worse, but is that because we are thinking about it? Probably. My son might be superstitious of 13 though. He is still learning to count and always skips 13, going from 12 to 14, it usually falls apart after that.