Anyone have any Friday the 13th stories to share? It only happens every so often. I admit I have a bit of a connection, beings that I was born on a Friday the 13th in June a couple decades ago.


Wait a minute! That means Tomorrow is my birthday! Huzzah for me

What's even better is my tabletop night is thursday, which means midnight will strike during our session. Maybe my GM will kill my character as a present. That seems right up his alley :rolleyes:

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THE FRIDAY THE 13th STORY


This is how the Friday the 13th became known as unlucky:

During the crusades there was a christian organisation called The Knights Templar, they had swan an oath to protect the holy land from invaders. They were very rich and invented the concept of the modern bank, but those are stories for another time.

Now, protecting the holy land from invaders meant that they had to protect it from the Roman Catholic crusaders, they were however Roman Catholics, and this meant defiance of The Holy Roman Emperor, the Pope. This did not sit too well with the Pope and so he secretly wrote arrest AND death warrants for all members of The Knights Templar, they were to all be realised at the same time to ensure all Knights Templar members were captured, the day picked for this was Friday 13th.

The day isn't unlucky, it's just coincidence.

Sorry for spoiling your fun but this is absolutely true , if a little brief.

I don't care what others say about you...you are very intelligent!


HAPPY early BIRTHDAY AD
How old?

Loki, I am pleased to see someone else intrested in history.
It is true, well the part about why the Catholic Church had them abolished is certain up for debate, but that is true of much of history.
There are also plenty of superstitious and numerical funness to explain why thirteen is considered bad luck.
However, I personally find April 15th to be an unlucky day, and not just because of tax day, there have been several natural and unnatural awful events that occur on that day.
Then again one can find that for just about any day of the year if they do enough searching. I happen to be born on the day the American Pie crashed...

Thank you for you kind words, it would be hard to find anything not distorted by the church these days.

As for unlucky numbers a friend of mine has recently been given a doctorate, PHD, not medical. Their chosen subject is 'The number 638 actually being the real number of the devil...' and it continues on for a wile but they are now considered the worlds leading expert on why 638 is the number of the devil ect. and not 666. According to him the number 666 originally came from astrology for some reason I don't understand but they made an error and the number should actually be 638.

PS: I find September 7th and April 23ed to be unlucky personaly.

Funny thing that tomorrow is also Mom's Hmmmm could be your both Demon children OMG RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Both the number thirteen and Friday have been considered unlucky:

In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve recognized signs of the zodiac, the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve Apostles of Jesus, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness.[2] There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners.
Friday, as the day on which Jesus Christ was crucified, has been viewed both positively and negatively among Christians. The actual day of Crucifixion was the 14th day of Nissan in the Hebrew Lunar calendar which does not correspond to "Friday" in the solar calendar of Rome. The 15th day of Nissan (beginning at Sundown) is celebration of Passover.
Despite the onus on the two separated elements, there is no evidence for a link between the two before the 19th century. The earliest known reference in English occurs in a 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini:

[Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring and affectionate friends; and if it be true that, like so many other Italians, he regarded Friday as an unlucky day, and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that on Friday, the 13th of November, he died.[3]
However, only in the 20th century did the superstition receive greater audience, as Friday the 13th doesn't even merit a mention in E. Cobham Brewer's voluminous 1898 edition of the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, though one does find entries for "Friday, an Unlucky Day" and "Thirteen Unlucky." When the date of ill fate finally does make an appearance in later editions of the text, it is without extravagant claims as to the superstition's historicity or longevity.[4]
Though the superstition developed relatively recently, much older origins are often claimed for it, most notably in the novel The Da Vinci Code (and later the film), which traced the belief to the arrest of the Knights Templar on Friday October 13, 1307.[4]

I got nothing about Fri 13th meself. But uh, happy early birthday Bob. I'll get to work on something large and obnoxious to celebrate.

My aunt had to have a large part of her skull removed earlier this year after a fall caused her brain to swell, and today of all days she is scheduled for the surgery that will replace the missing bone with cool space age plastic molded fake bone... So I am keeping my fingers crossed today that there is no real reason to be fearful of the date. I don't really believe in such things, but hey it's better safe than sorry right?

I was watching Court TV today. One of the expert witnesses laptops died during testimony!

The judge made a Friday the 13th comment. Too funny.

On a Friday the Thirteenth we got a puppy for our belated thirteenth birthday. It was a Weimaraner, a rare breed back in the late fifties. Oops dating myself. When we first saw him he was curled up on the front seat of the breeders car, He almost looked pinkish. We had him for 13 wonderful years and he was succeeded by a number of equally wonderful weimaraners.

11 and 13 are our lucky numbers, also.

Whether it was a case of good or bad luck, my sister nearly died on a Friday the 13th. The story itself makes the case for it being bad luck, but an optimist would point out that she survived, which was against considerable odds.

My sister and her boyfriend were leaving an apartment building at the same time two kids were horsing around on the roof, 21 stories up. They decided it would be hilarious to toss cinder blocks off the roof onto the sidewalk, and one struck my sister. It fractured her skull, shoulder blade and collarbone, and put her into a coma.

HOWEVER...she's alive and able and Mighty Miss V's coolest aunt.

On Friday the 13th...The Inn when down again...


Spooky.


Edit: Van didn't see yours, holy crap.

how horrible. I swear I don't understand the mindset of people. It's like they don't think beyond the end of their nose...no consideration of what the consequences could be.