From Templars To Hollywood, How One Date Became Our Favorite Curse

Ever notice how one date can hijack your imagination? We’re pulling the mask off Friday the 13th and following its trail from medieval warnings and biblical symbolism to stock market lore, slasher-era storytelling, and the everyday rituals people still swear by. With a mix of history, myth, and measurable facts, we test whether the world is truly more dangerous on this date—or whether our brains are simply better at remembering the hits than the misses.

We start with the building blocks: why Fridays got a bad rap in old travel tales, how thirteen at a table became a cultural red flag, and when the pairing of Friday and the 13th actually entered print. From there, we track the modern engines of superstition. A 1907 Wall Street novel turned fear into a financial plot. Decades later, a film franchise transformed a day on the calendar into a cinematic shorthand for danger, priming generations to expect jump scares in real life. Expectation shapes perception; once you’re on alert, every black cat and creaky stair reads like a sign.

But stories don’t stand alone. We walk through famous events pinned to the date—Templar arrests, crashes in the Andes and Moscow, an eerie lightning strike at 13:13, a brutal market drop, Buffalo’s freak October snow, and the Costa Concordia disaster—then test them against base rates and bias. Some studies hint at higher incident rates, others don’t; what’s consistent is our selective attention. Even the economy reacts, with estimates of hundreds of millions lost as people skip flights and delay plans. Fear has a footprint, and it shows up in both memory and money.

So what do we do with a day like this? We suggest a reset: treat Friday the 13th as a live experiment in critical thinking and community. Keep the fun rituals if they calm your nerves, but pair them with better questions, clearer data, and shared stories that reclaim the narrative. With two Friday the 13ths in 2026 and the close pass of asteroid Apophis in 2029, curiosity beats dread every time. If our choices write the ending, let’s make it a good one.

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Transcript

Setting The Spooky Stage

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Between the realm of the dead and the journeys of the living, join Josh, Jamie, and Elisa as they delve into the vast world of the paranormal and breathe life back into the history of the departed.

What Makes Friday Unlucky

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They say it began with a Knights Templar in 1307, or perhaps at a dinner table where the thirteenth guest brought on a curse that changed the world. Whether you call it Periscavi Deca Triphobia or just a feeling in your gut, the calendar has finally landed on that dreaded date. I'm Josh.

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And I'm Jamie.

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And today on the Paranormal Peeps Podcast, we aren't just looking for black cats and broken mirrors. We're stepping into the darkness to find out why this day still holds us in its grip. Lock your doors. It's Friday the 13th.

SPEAKER_03 0:55

Nice.

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A fun day, right?

SPEAKER_03 0:58

It's a fun day. It depends on who you talk to, of course. Everybody has different viewpoints of it. Some people pay it no mind. Other people get fully engulfed in it, you know?

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Yeah.

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But I mean, try saying that one word really fast three times that you said. I can't even say it.

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It it took me quite a while to actually get to say this word correctly.

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I know it was painful. I was sitting here listening. It was great.

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Yeah. And and and what it means is the fear of Friday the 13th.

SPEAKER_03 1:30

Wow, I never knew there was a word for it.

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Yeah, I didn't either.

SPEAKER_03 1:34

Well, I guess we do now.

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So let's dive into a little bit of the history. Or maybe more accurately, accurately, we call it the superstition. Because there is no written evidence before the 19th century on Friday the 13th.

SPEAKER_03 1:52

Nothing, huh?

SPEAKER_01 1:52

Nothing. So historically, Friday has long been regarded as an unlucky day for starting a journey or starting new projects, according to the 14th century work by Jeffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales.

SPEAKER_03 2:11

Okay, so what is that book about?

SPEAKER_01 2:14

So that book is actually uh it depicts a storytelling contest of travelers traveling from London to Canterbury.

SPEAKER_03 2:28

Okay.

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And so it and obviously it's gonna talk about the misgivings of travel and how you know tough it can be. And so obviously, the part that I think is kind of interesting in it is they're like, it's a bad day to travel on Friday. But today, that's when most of us get in the car and take a trip.

SPEAKER_03 2:55

Sure. Like uh, hey, we're gonna head out Friday early morning or Friday after work.

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Yeah.

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You know, it's more commonplace today. Yeah, it's more of the normal thing today than it was back then.

Origins: Last Supper To Chaucer

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Right. So it it makes it interesting. So I guess the question is, is then where or rather why do we consider this unlucky? Now, it could date back to the crucifixion of of Jesus, which happened on a Friday.

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Yeah.

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And of course, there were 13 people present at the Last Supper.

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Right.

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So is that kind of the tie that we're making? It's kind of hard to to depict or to figure that part out, but it does kind of make sense that that that's how we would start to draw that superstition.

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Sure. I could see it.

Data, Accidents, And Bias

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It may be more likely that the superstition status as many strange things started to happen on the 13th. So there was actually a r uh a research done on hospital admittance for Friday the 13th versus every other Friday of the year.

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Interesting.

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And they found that women were more likely to have an unfortunate accident on Friday the 13th versus men.

SPEAKER_03 4:32

Okay. Does it say when that study was done?

SPEAKER_01 4:35

Yeah, it was in the it was if I remember correctly, it was like the 1950s or 60s or something like that.

SPEAKER_03 4:42

Okay, so it's been a while. So I wonder if they did that same study today. Would there be similarities? Would it still be more women admitted to the hospital because of incidence or whatever illness versus men? Or would it be the opposite, or you know what I mean? Like, how does it compare to other days?

SPEAKER_01 5:07

Well, yeah, and that's why they did it against other Fridays.

SPEAKER_03 5:10

Sure, but that's what I'm saying. It was done back in like the 50s.

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Right.

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What if we were to do that study today and compare it to the one we did back in the 50s?

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Yeah, I mean, I it could be easily done. Yeah it wouldn't be.

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I would be interested to see the conversion. Yeah.

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Now, while it's been generally agreed that a black cat crossing your path is considered a sign of bad luck to come. If it happens on Friday the 13th, watch out. It just might be lethal. Especially if it's your cat that likes to lay on the top of the stairs trying to trip you as you go down.

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Oh, that's an Oscar thing all the way.

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All the way. And all of you other cat owners, you kind of know what we're talking about.

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Or like when they're walking in front of you, like when you're walking across the kitchen floor and they're in front of you and then they just stop.

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Trying to trip you.

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Trying to trip you, and you just keep going.

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Maybe that's why the hospital admits went up for Friday the 13th for women.

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All due to cats. All due to cats.

Superstitions You Shouldn’t Test

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Cats trying to kill us. So let's look at some of the superstitions associated to Friday the 13th. You may want to schedule your haircut on a different day. Superstitions say getting your hair cut on Friday the 13th will result in the death of a family member.

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What?

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Yeah.

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Oh my. Okay.

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Avoid combing your hair on Friday the 13th. Because if a bird uses your fallen locks to build a nest, you might go bald.

SPEAKER_03 6:53

Does it matter, or your hair already fell out? Does it matter whether the bird takes it at that point?

SPEAKER_01 7:00

Well, but you know, it's a little bit of hair. You know, because like when you when you brush your hair or comb your hair, you can have some strands left on the comb.

SPEAKER_03 7:08

Sure.

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So if it falls on the ground and a bird picks it up and puts it in their nest, you can go bald because of it.

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Reminds me of the whole roo in the shoe thing again.

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Yes.

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If you know, you know.

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An old wives tale says children born on Friday the 13th will be unlucky for life. So far, though, Steve Buscemi, Mary Kate, and Ashley Olson, and Kate Dennings appear to be kind of doing all right. But they were all born on Friday the 13th.

SPEAKER_03 7:41

Interesting.

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So knocking over salt is thought to lead to bad luck on any day, but especially on Friday the 13th.

SPEAKER_03 7:50

So is that like when you spill salt and you pick it up and you throw it over your right shoulder?

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Yes.

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Is like to counterreact that?

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Yeah, to counteract the bad luck associated with spilling salt.

SPEAKER_03 8:00

Yeah, I've seen that sometimes in well, cartoons, especially. I've seen that in the older cartoons.

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Yeah.

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Uh way back when. Yeah.

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And then he did it in Dumb and Dumber, too. But he threw the whole salt shaker. So remember, it's a pinch of salt over the shoulder, not the entire shaker.

SPEAKER_03 8:19

Exactly.

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Don't knock someone out in the restaurant. Three things you should not do on Friday the 13th. Put on your sho put your shoes on a table, sleep on a table, or sing at a table. They say that doing these will increase your b your chances of bad luck.

SPEAKER_03 8:38

Okay, wait a second. Who's putting their dirty shoes on the counter? Like gross? Seriously, gross. Well, maybe on the table.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

What if you're putting them on the to on the table so you can lay your head on them and sleep on them? While singing.

SPEAKER_03 8:52

Yeah, um No? That's silly. Um But I'm just I'm just saying, like, I I don't know anybody that's gonna put their dirty shoes on their table. I really don't know anybody that's gonna sleep on their table. As far as a person goes. Do you?

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No.

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Sleep on an actual table.

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No.

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Singing at the table? Okay. You got friends, you're playing game night.

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Or it's your birthday.

SPEAKER_03 9:21

Or it's your birthday. That one I can see. The other two, I'm just I guess I can't wrap my mind around it.

Books And The Birth Of A Meme

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Yeah. I'm not sure. So an interesting note is on Friday the 13th, or part of the history of the legend of Friday the 13th occurred in 1907, when the publication of the novel Friday the 13th, which was written by Thomas William Lawson, was published. Of course. Of course, right? The book told the story of a New York City stockbroker who plays on superstitions about the date to create chaos on Wall Street and make a killing on the market.

SPEAKER_03 10:10

Hmm. Interesting.

SPEAKER_01 10:11

Yeah. And then of course, the movie Friday the 13th.

SPEAKER_03 10:18

Which we know, our generation knows. What about these newer generations?

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Oh, I'm sure there's been a lot of them that have come out. I mean, I think the last one came out in the early 2000s, maybe 2010, something like that.

SPEAKER_03 10:33

Yeah, but that that's still what 15, 16 years ago.

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Yeah, it's been a while.

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So I'm talking about these newer generations, like newer teen, you know, the teenagers.

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Yeah.

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They may not.

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They may not.

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You may say it and they're like, what's that?

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Well, the first one was released in 1980.

SPEAKER_03 10:50

Yeah, we were just like two.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

Yeah. Which the first time I ever saw that movie was 1986.

SPEAKER_03 11:01

Oh, you were young. What the heck? Who let you go see that?

SPEAKER_01 11:06

My mom.

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Yeah, there you go.

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Well, with my sister.

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Oh no. Your mom just wanted you out of the your out of her hair, so she just told your sister, take your brother.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

Well, it was out. I was like, Oh, I want to see that movie. I didn't know what it was about.

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I knew it was well, and apparently your mom didn't either.

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Obviously.

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I think had she known, she probably would have been like, Nope.

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I can tell you this though. Once the killing started, I was out.

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I don't blame you.

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Because I was what, eight?

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Yeah. Yeah. It's I don't think kids back in like the 80s and stuff weren't as desensitized as people and kids are today.

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Yeah, well, that's very true.

SPEAKER_03 11:48

So it was very much a scarier thing. I think, you know, we grew up with those movies, but I think if we went back and watched them today, in our much older age, the I think we kind of laugh at them a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

Probably. I mean, the so the last horror movie I watched that I can remember going to the theater to watch was a Halloween movie.

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Right.

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And it was, I mean, the theater was laughing because we were all like everyone in the theater was counting down. Like the music starts in that spot, and you're like three, two, one, and then jump scared.

SPEAKER_03 12:27

Then we slash. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:30

Right.

SPEAKER_03 12:31

Yeah. I think the last one that was considered a scary movie. Uh, I went with my dad and stepmom and all my siblings, and there were seven of us kids, and we went to see the Blair Witch project.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

Yeah, that was a good movie. But I saw it many, I saw it a couple of years afterwards. I saw it on VHS. Went to that place called Blockbuster and rented a movie.

SPEAKER_03 12:58

Yeah. Some younger people are like, what is Blockbuster? Or Hollywood Video?

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Or VHS?

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What's a VHS?

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It's not getting to beta.

SPEAKER_03 13:10

Oh no. You're you're get you're gonna really lose people.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

Right. Um, but yeah, those, I mean, those movies obviously were kind of the start of the slasher flicks and the horror pieces, and I mean that definitely helps like grow the idea of Friday the 13th.

SPEAKER_03 13:32

Helps it along.

Is The Day Truly Cursed

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It helps it along. But in order for like a superstition to really kind of hold steady, things have had to have happened in the past on that date to kind of like start to cement this more than just superstition and lore, but really start showing that there's been some unfortunate events that have happened.

SPEAKER_03 13:58

Right. So do you have some examples?

SPEAKER_01 14:00

Oh, I have a few.

SPEAKER_03 14:01

Okay.

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And we're gonna start back on Friday, October 13th, 1307.

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Alright, let's go.

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So the French rounded up thousands of Knights Templars and tortured them as heretics. We'll move forward just a couple years. Friday, uh, November 13th, 1829. 10,000 people gathered to watch Sam Patch jump into New York's uh Guinness River from atop the Guinness Falls. Interesting enough, only weeks earlier he leapt off Niagara Falls and into the Niagara River and survived.

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Right.

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This time he didn't.

SPEAKER_03 14:55

Wasn't so lucky, huh?

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He was not so lucky. Friday, October thirteenth, nineteen seventy-two. A plane crashed in the Andes. Twelve people died instantly, and the survivors resorted to cannibalism.

SPEAKER_03 15:13

Oh, yeah. So most people know of this.

SPEAKER_01 15:17

Yep.

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This incident.

SPEAKER_01 15:19

I watched the movie of that. It's called Alive.

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Mm-hmm. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

That was kind of uh an interesting movie. I knew nothing of it. Obviously, this happened before we were born.

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Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:35

But yeah, I found it actually kind of fascinating, the the fact that people honestly survived because and they survived for a several days up there. Where normally you would think that now if a plane crash happened in the mountains, most likely there's no chance of anyone surviving.

SPEAKER_02 15:52

Right.

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Interesting enough, on the same day in Russia, 174 people were killed when an airliner crashed what crashed on a landing in Moscow.

SPEAKER_00 16:07

So two plane crashes the same day on Friday the 13th. Unlucky? Coincidence? Yeah, coincidence? Maybe.

SPEAKER_03 16:22

I mean, could you not go, okay, so every Thursday the 12th, this happened in this part of the world, and not only that, but this other thing happened in this other part of the world, both disastrous. And 20 years ago on Thursday a 12th, these things happened. Could we not just as easily have said Thursday the 12th is cursed? We could versus Friday the 13th? Because I'm sure you can look. Things happen in the world every day. And just because you haven't heard of them or heard about them, like on the news or whatever, doesn't mean that there weren't bad things that happen on those other days as well.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

Very true.

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The world is a big place.

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And for for us in the US, the third 13 has such an a superstitious connotation. That's why for you know, for it is what you make it though. Right. But when they started building tall buildings, they st they they would leave out the 13th floor.

SPEAKER_03 17:22

Yeah, superstition.

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Superstition.

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Exactly.

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So Friday, August 13th, 2010, a 13-year-old boy in Suffolk, England was struck by lightning. The lightning reportedly hit at 113 or 1313 and on the 24 hour clock. The boy survived unharmed.

SPEAKER_03 17:47

So if it's such a bad thing, how'd he survive unharmed?

SPEAKER_01 17:51

Well, I mean, people do survive lightning strikes, but that's not what I'm saying. That's pretty unlucky to be struck by lightning. Or it is lucky, depending on your viewpoint of it.

SPEAKER_03 18:01

I don't know anybody that would say it was lucky.

SPEAKER_01 18:03

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 18:04

First of all. But second of all, he survived. So it kind of lets some of the air out of the bag there.

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A little.

SPEAKER_03 18:14

Yeah. Um, I'm glad he survived.

Markets, Money, And Fear

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I am too. On Friday, October 13, 2006, nearly half a million people lost power in Buffalo, New York, and the surrounding suburbs when buried under 24 or 22 to 24 inches of snow. Western New York is used to a lot of snow, but 24 inches in October.

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Okay.

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On Friday the uh the 13th of October, a lot of October 13s. I've noticed that. Uh 1989, the stock market fell a whopping 6.91%. At the time, it was the second worst day in market history.

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Wow.

SPEAKER_01 19:04

Of course, the cr the stock market crash wasn't the first one.

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Right.

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So that's kind of freaky. That's a lot, that's that's a lot of wealth lost on a 7% drop.

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Just shows you how easily it can come and go. Come and go. Yeah.

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Uh Friday, July 13th, 1979, Bob Renfrey decided to stay in bed every subsequent Friday the 13th because of a spat of good bad luck he suffered on that unlucky day. Such as walking through a plate glass door, getting fired, and putting his wife in the hospital after hitting her in the head with a stick meant for the dog.

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Oh no.

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Another Friday the 13th saw his wife fall down a flight of stairs.

Lightning, Snowstorms, And Ships

SPEAKER_03 19:56

Okay, I really feel sorry for that guy. Right. Well, and his wife, by the way. Yes. Because dang, she seems to be the recipient of a lot of it.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

Right. Yeah, getting hit in the head by uh a stick for the dog.

SPEAKER_03 20:12

Yep, and falling down the stairs. Yeah. Yeah.

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On uh July 13, 1951, here's an ocean mystery. After days of recording of record-setting rainfall in northeastern Kansas, swollen rivers poured over their banks, consuming the cities of Topeka, Lawrence, and Manhattan in the process.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

Oh wow. That's scary.

SPEAKER_01 20:40

Yeah. Now, I will say this though. That's, I mean, a lot of rain to cause a flood. Of course. But that area of Kansas is pretty dang flat.

SPEAKER_03 20:52

Right.

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So once it gets out of its banks, it can run for a long time.

SPEAKER_03 20:57

Yeah. There's like no hills or anything to like stop it or for it to go around. It just free flow.

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Yeah, you as you're driving west through Kansas and you look to your right, north, you see Nebraska.

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It's that flat.

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It is that flat. On January 13th, or January 13th, 2012, the cruise ship Costa Concordia partially sank off the Italian coast after running aground, killing 32 people.

SPEAKER_03 21:29

Oh, that's sad too.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

Yeah. I remember that one.

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Do you?

SPEAKER_01 21:35

Yeah. That's the one where um as the ship the ship was kind of going down a little bit, the captain abandoned ship.

SPEAKER_03 21:44

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

And they had to go, they hauled them back.

SPEAKER_03 21:48

Yeah.

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They arrested him for Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:50

I do remember that.

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Yeah.

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Oh my. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:54

I didn't realize anybody died on that one, but I remember it running aground.

SPEAKER_03 21:58

That is sad. Wasn't he drunk and he breeded?

SPEAKER_01 22:04

I think so, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:05

If I remember correctly.

Tragedy, Celebrity, And Chance

SPEAKER_01 22:06

I think you're right. So on uh September 13, 1996, Tupac Shakur died six days after being shot. Remember that too.

SPEAKER_03 22:22

I don't remember it happening. I don't recall hearing about it, but Yeah, because that happened in Las Vegas. Yeah. Still sad.

SPEAKER_01 22:32

Very sad.

SPEAKER_03 22:33

Still sad. Anytime anybody loses their life, it's just it's a life lost.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

Yeah.

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It's it's still sad.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

So here's one that hasn't happened yet.

SPEAKER_03 22:44

We mean yet.

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October 13th, 2029.

SPEAKER_03 22:48

Okay.

Future Threats: Apophis Flyby

SPEAKER_01 22:50

Asteroid 99942, um Apophis is forecasted to pass Earth at a scant 18,000 miles away. So pretty close. Closer than any of the satellites we've put into orbit.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

Ooh. That's a little frightening.

SPEAKER_01 23:08

That is terrifying.

SPEAKER_03 23:10

Yeah. Okay, well, that's a wait and see.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

Yeah. That's uh that's three years from now.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

I don't want to dwell on that.

The Cost Of Superstition

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And then here's one other interesting one. This is every Friday the 13th now. The world's economy apparently loses 900 million dollars because people are afraid to work and travel on this date.

Reframing Luck And Listener Stories

SPEAKER_03 23:40

Okay, that's stupid, but all right. That shows you how how what an what a grip it has on people. Yeah. At times. Look, to each their own, but dang. I mean, we we had one of our public ghost hunts that our team put on on a Friday the 13th in October.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

It was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_03 24:04

We had a great time, everything went well, it was good.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:09

So I don't necessarily show associate it with bad things, but I get where people do.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:14

Like I'm not gonna downplay how other people feel. Um I mean, because some people have had some recurring bad luck on Friday the 13th.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

Yeah. Is it um is it really a cursed day? Don't know. But interesting enough, 2026 has two of them.

SPEAKER_03 24:40

It does. So one February.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

And the other one's November, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 24:47

I think so.

SPEAKER_03 24:48

Yeah. So two of them.

SPEAKER_00 24:51

We got two this year.

SPEAKER_03 24:52

Mm-hmm. So go out and spread some good cheer and some love on those Friday the 13th this year.

SPEAKER_01 25:01

Right.

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Grab a shamrock, uh lucky horseshoe, a lucky rabbit's foot, whatever. Just go out and try to turn it around.

Closing Thoughts And Invites

SPEAKER_01 25:08

That's right. And if uh if you guys have any superstitions associated a Friday the 13th, or um know of any fun ones, let us know.

SPEAKER_03 25:22

Yeah, or if if you've experienced maybe some not so great things on Friday the 13th, or maybe some good things.

SPEAKER_00 25:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:31

Doesn't always have to be bad. Like if you have some really good things that happen in your life on a Friday the 13th, share it with us.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 25:38

We'd love to hear about it.

SPEAKER_01 25:40

And as always, stay ghosty, my peeps.