Say "Paraskevidekatriaphobia" five times fast
I read up on a few of the reasons people link Friday the 13th with bad luck. It is said if 13 people sit down to dinner together, all will die within the year. Jesus was crucified on a Friday. If you have 13 letters in your name (Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy), you will have the devil's luck. If you change your bed on Friday, bad dreams will supposedly follow. There are 13 witches in a coven.

OTHER SCARY FRIDAY THE 13TH FACTS

There are thirteen songs on any album by the band Coven. Listening to it is said to have caused extremely bad luck. And extremely bad acne.

The thirteenth English colony in North America was Georgia. Jeff Foxworthy was born in Atlanta on Friday, September 6, 1958.

From Viking folklore: Twelve gods were invited to a Friday banquet at Valhalla. Loki, the Evil One, had been excluded from the guest list but crashed the party anyway (bringing the number of attendees to thirteen). True to character, Loki raised hell by inciting Hod, the blind god of winter. And seriously, you do NOT want to let that dude know if you're holding. Between double-dipping in the guacamole and multiple retellings of "the time Hod and I went jet-skiing in Cabo with Salma Hayek..." the other party guests grew annoyed and started shit-talking Loki to Ted Casablancas.

The movie Thirteen premiered on a Friday in 2003. It quickly became a festival favorite and raked in 25 different award nominations, including a Best Acting Oscar nod for Holly Hunter. But due to the unlucky Friday/13 connection, the cursed film only won 10 of those 25 awards.

Both presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were shot on a Friday, and each of their respective assassins names contained exactly thirteen characters. Their names were John Wilkes Boo and Lee Harvey Oswa.

There are thirteen members in Macy Gray's back up band, and if you see them on a Friday your soul will spit in your face as it leaves your body.

By unlocking a sequence of codes hidden in the Mona Lisa you'll find Leonardo da Vinci's secret confession: that he fathered thirteen different illegitimate children. Historians have traced the lineage of each of his offspring and found that twelve of them died at an early age. The thirteenth was rumored to be the great great great great great great great grandfather of Curtis L. Carlson, founder of TGI Friday's.

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