The 13th

Friday the 13th

So today is the supersitious Friday the 13th, spooky! I personally usually have good luck on Friday the 13th but others I guess not and as many of us in USA knows today the remake of the original movie Friday the 13th is coming out! I, unfortunately, working all weekend long. boo! But I was curious myself to find out why Friday's that fall on the 13th got such a bad rep and I came up with some interesting facts, all found by the website http://weeklyworldnews.com

• Friday the 13th traces back to a Dutch holiday where mischievous children would sneak into graveyards at night and defecate on tombstones. (( damn those kids ))
• In France, Friday the 13th often fell on the day after the Feast of Saint Imbibecus. Thus the day was often associated with terrible hangovers and poor choices made the night before. (( HaHa for Americans that'd be everyday ))
• The Aztecs brutally killed 39,000 in one day on Friday the 13th of August, 1539. This was done at the request of the recently arrived Hernan Cortez, who claimed to be a god seeking tribute. The next day he overthrew their empire. (( woah! ))
• One source says the number 13 has been unlucky since the Last Supper of Christ, where thirteen people were in attendance. (( they should have tried lucky number sleven ))
• Most skyscrapers do not include a thirteenth floor. Gregory Johnson bravely included a thirteenth floor in his designs for the Empire State Building in New York. Three days after its completion, on a Friday, the weight of the building caused it to buckle and it crushed the thirteenth floor. It has been structurally sound ever since.
• In London’s summer of 1865, seven prostitutes, two flower sellers, three secretaries and a nun were assaulted on Friday July 13th by a crazy man wearing an athletic mask. The assailant would jump out of the shadows and present them with literature supporting the Conservative Party. As the women screamed and tried to run away, they were asked for donations repeatedly, up to 18 times in one case. (( ladies were just trying to make a living man ))
• On Friday June 13th of 1952, Massachusetts Governor Kyle McArthur banned all private automotive transportation on the unlucky day. Nine overcrowded city buses crashed into each other in downtown Boston.
• Billy Ray Cyrus, Bobby Brown, and Michael Bolton all released albums on Friday the 13th. (( LoL love how that is one of the reasons that Friday the 13th got a bad rep ))

So there you go; some insane factors, some really funny ones on the list but overall some reasoning as to why the Friday's that fall on the 13th get a bad rep. Sorry! I tried to look for reasoning otherwise.

Ciao fellow bloggers. happy, cold weekend!