Friday the 13th - Creepy Stories That Happened On This Unluckiest Day

For a long time, people have considered Friday the 13^th the unluckiest date in the year. However, it does not happen annually but it may take place several times a year.

And today is that day.

For those who don’t know, we even have a word to describe the fear for Friday the 13^th, friggatriskaidekaphobia! Sound like a witch’s spell right?

The question is why are people so afraid of this day? Where did this fear all start?

Let’s read these creepy true stories which happened right on Friday the 13^th to know why friggatriskaidekaphobia exists.

Friday the 13^th, 1972

On this day in October, the plane carrying a rugby team of Uruguay crashed on a Chile-bound flight, leaving 31 people dead. However, that’s not the creepiest part of the story.

14 people had survived the crash but it took 2 months for them to find assistance and be rescued. In order to live through those days, many had resorted to eating human flesh of their own dead teammates.

Friday the 13^th Accident Rates

In 1993, people decided to research how unlucky this day was by checking the hospitalization rates of this day compared to Friday of a week earlier.

The result left them in shock. There was a 52% increase in the hospital rates by car accidents. Since then, people are advised to stay at home on Friday the 13^th to save lives.

Friday the 13^th, 2010

On August 13^th, Friday, 2010, a teenager was struck by lightning in England. The story is not worth mentioning till people found out the time he was struck, at exactly 13:13 guys!

Friday the 13^th Weather

The bad luck has its own climate pattern! The history has recorded many bizarre weather occurrences on Friday the 13^th, namely the bushfires in Australia in 1939 which burnt 4 million acres of land or the 24-inch snowfall in New York in 2006.

Friday the 13^th, 1996

On Friday 13 September, 1996, the legendary rapper Tupac passed away after being shot on the Las Vegas strip 6 days before.

Friday the 13^th, 1987

A North Wales bus conductor Bob Renphrey didn’t believe in bad luck but then changed his mind after this day. He later narrated his ordeal on Friday the 13^th days: crashing 4 cars, one motorbike, lost the job, fell into a river and walked through a plate glass door.

Funny enough, when he died, his wife tried booking his funeral on exactly Friday the 13^th in March, 1998 but all the undertakers were busy. Bob Renphrey hated Friday the 13^th and so did that day unlike him.

Friday the 13^th Obsession

If you think your fear has nothing to do with others and the fear of others shouldn’t bother you as well, then you’re wrong.

According to reports, the world economy has witnessed $900 million loss on this day when people don’t dare to go out for work, or travel.

Friday the 13^th, 1829

Someone loves risking their lives to prove a point. This time is the story of Sam Patch who attempted to jump from Niagara Falls and stay alive to show that Friday the 13^th was not something scary.

Sam had practiced the jump before to make sure it worked, but… You guessed the last part!

He couldn’t make it on Friday 13 November 1829 for unknown reason.

Don’t be like Sam!

Anyway, these are what happened outside India. You shouldn't take it seriously as there's no scientific proof that Friday the 13th is the day of bad luck.

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