What odd occurrences have taken place on Friday the 13th?

Answer 1

While I'm not especially superstitious, Friday the 13th has certainly held bad luck for some people. Here are a few of my favorite coincidences:

• An author’s ship suffered a strange fate. Author Thomas William Lawson was a businessman and author, and he might have helped popularize the Friday the 13th superstition. In 1907, he wrote Friday, the Thirteenth, a popular novel about a stock broker who brings down the markets on the eponymous date.
  Lawson also invested heavily in a schooner named after him, the Thomas W. Lawson. The ship was wrecked off the Isles of Scilly in the early hours of Saturday, Dec. 14th, 1907. Lawson lived in Boston at the time, so to him, the boat wrecked on Friday the 13th.
• Stock markets crashed. On Oct. 13, 1989, traders saw one of the worst Stock Market crashes in years. It was triggered by fears of high inflation and news of a failed United Airlines buyout. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 189 points, indicating a major panic among investors.
  The timing of the panic wasn’t ideal; stock traders are notoriously superstitious, and investors often avoid making major trades on Friday the 13th.
• The Knights Templar were arrested and executed. The Knights Templar were a religious order formed in the 12th century to protect Christians during the Crusades. In 1307, French king Philip IV had built up a sizable debt to the secret order, who were extremely wealthy by that point in time. Philip had scores of them arrested on Friday, Oct. 13, 1307. Many were tortured and eventually burned at the stake.
  Some believe this is the origin of our modern Friday the 13th superstition, but there are quite a few other explanations for the paranoia surrounding the date.
• In 1829, a prominent daredevil attempted an ill-fated stunt. Sam Patch attempted to jump from a 25-foot-tall platform above Genesee Falls in Rochester, New York, on Friday, Nov. 13, 1829. In total, the jump was 125 feet. He’d survived similar jumps in the past, but alas, he wasn’t so lucky on this attempt.
  His final words:
  “Napoleon was a great man and a great general. He conquered armies and he conquered nations. But he couldn’t jump the Genesee Falls. Wellington was a great man and a great soldier. He conquered armies and he conquered Napoleon, but he couldn’t jump the Genesee Falls. That was left for me to do, and I can do it and will!”
  He couldn’t, and he didn’t. His body was found several months later.
• In 2010, a 13-year-old in Suffolk, England, was struck by lightning (and it gets weirder). The boy was rushed to a hospital and was expected to make a full recovery.
  "This was a very minor burn to the boy's shoulder, but he was conveyed to hospital and is recovering well,” a county ambulance officer said at the time.
  Here’s the bizarre part of the story: The child suffered his injuries at precisely 1:13 in the afternoon—or 13:13, if you’re using a 24-hour clock. We’re guessing he stayed indoors for the next Friday the 13th.
• On Friday, April 13, 2029, asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass near Earth. Scientists initially believed it had a chance of crashing into our planet, causing massive destruction (but not a mass extinction, as the asteroid’s not especially large). They’ve since ruled out that possibility. Still, the idea of a near-Earth asteroid passing by on the unluckiest date on the calendar has prompted fears of an apocalypse. Here’s why there’s nothing to worry about.

If these coincidences seem frightening, you could always stay in bed on Friday the 13th.

Answer 2

I haven't had anything strange happen to me on Friday the 13th, but I always love how, whenever someone mentions it's Friday the 13th, the atmosphere of the day changes (even if ever so slightly). So far, this hasn't gone away with age—people hear it, abandon logic and get a little spooked about the prospects of the day.

Answer 3

Well, honestly, I don't think that the superstition is true, people just think that these things are true, so from being more careful, they have horrid things happen to them. But you asked, and I do have ONE:


In 1993 in the U.K, hospital admission rose 52% from automobile accidents.

Answer 4

i saw it not too long ago, i only want to give you the parts before clay, chewie, and the rest of the second group of teens arives at the camp, so i don't spoil the whole thing.

the opening credits clearly show a young woman running around in the woods, it's raining. she runs into Pamela voorhees, and she, the last Survivor, in order to survive the carnage, beheads Pamela.

then, the movie goes to crystal lake in present day. a group of teens is going camping, and some of them are looking for hidden marijuana (weed). one of the group, wade, says the legend of the killings, and Jason (Pamela's son), still being alive after a supposed drowning, seeing his mom beheaded, and that Jason will seek revenge on those who enter the campsite.

two of the group, a couple, decide to have sex in their tent. meanwhile, wade finds the marijuana, says that he loves the plants, and kisses them. he sees a shadow, turns around to find a man wearing a sack on his head (probably a potato sack like in part 2), and quote wade, he yells what the f***, but Jason kills him off screen, and blood hits a tree.

the couple have sex, but the male thinks wade is watching him, so he goes out to investigate. he finds wade's corpse next to a tree, and runs, eventually getting a leg caught in a bear trap. the girl that had sex with the guy caught in the bear trap, investigates, Jason gets her, and puts her in a sheet, zips it up, hangs the sheet on a tree, and starts a fire that burns her to death. the male sees this happen. he is still trapped.

the last two members of the group, a girl named Whitney, and some guy, ironically a couple, check out a cabin. they find a kids bedroom, with toys, and on the bedpost, it says "Jason". they see something in a hole in he wall, and the boyfriend pulls out, and drops in fear, pamela voorhees's severed head. the couple is scared, and start to leave, when the boyfriend hears a sound, he buts his head on the floor to listen. suddenly, a machete bursts through the wood, and eventually after a few tries, succeeds in stabbing the boyfriends foot a few times. then the wood bursts, as Jason (shows a cool close up of his eye, pulls the boyfriend below the ground.

Whitney runs out the cabin and see's the male in the bear trap, she runs to help him. when she reaches him and starts to get him out of the trap. the male see's Jason running towards him. it's too late, Whitney see's the machete stick into his head. Whitney crawls on the ground and it looks like Jason's going to kill her with the machete (they cut off to the title Friday the 13th to keep till the middle a very important factor, that Jason kidnapped Whitney instead, because she reminds him of his mother. this is the events of the first set of kills.

Answer 5

yes, very. the man looks like a incest child from west Virginia who decides that his mommy told him to randomly kill pot smoking sex addicted teens. in every movie a guy ad girl find a way to "kill' Jason, yet he always finds a way to come back to life and kill again.

Answer 6

me and my friend were walking down town when a car almost hit us if it haden't been me who pulled my friend back she would have goten hit. Then we were walking back to our car and we walked across the street and a car almost hit us again so thats when we knew the night was over.

Answer 7

Christmas is a traditinal day the day of Jesus's birtday

Answer 8

I droped some Food.

Very ODD

Answer 9

No.