Does anyone know the story behind Friday 13th?
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Friday the 13th is an unlucky day in much of Western Europe, North America, and Australia. Many people avoid travel and avoid signing contracts on Friday the 13th. Floors in tall buildings often skip from 12 to 14. And while the superstition is believed to be fading, it nonetheless has deep roots in both Christian and pagan culture.\nDuring the Middle Ages, the superstition against Friday the 13th grew. On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrests of Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templars and sixty of his senior knights in Paris. Thousands of others were arrested elsewhere in the country. After employing torture techniques to compel the Templars to "confess" to wrongdoing, most were eventually executed and sympathizers of the Templars condemned Friday the 13th as an evil day. Over time a large body of literature and folk wisdom have reinforced the belief. In the 18th century, the HMS Friday was launched on Friday the 13th(shipwrecked)It was never heard from again. Since then, ships are not usually launched on that date.
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I researched this question for you, I discovered more than I expected too. I hope this helps:\n\n\nOrigins\nThe origin of the Friday the 13th superstition has been linked to the belief that there were 13 people at The Last Supper of Jesus, who was crucified on Good Friday, but no evidence has been found that Friday 13th was considered especially unlucky until the 19th century. The number 13, however, has a long history of association with ill-luck. It has been linked to the fact that a lunisolar calendar must have 13 months in some years, while the solar Gregorian calendar and lunar Islamic calendar always have 12 months in a year. Another suggestion is that the belief originated in a Norse myth about twelve gods having a feast in Valhalla. The mischievous Loki gate-crashed the party as an uninvited 13th guest and arranged for Hod, the blind god of darkness, to throw a branch of mistletoe at Balder, the god of joy and gladness. Balder was killed instantly and the Earth was plunged into darkness and mourning as a result. Both the first and last explanations, however, seem more relevant to the superstition linked to having 13 people at the same table during a meal. There is also another theory that Friday the 13th of October 1307 was the day that Philip IV of France arrested hundreds of the French Knights Templar to get their money for the French treasury. One other note which predates all of the aforementioned is that the first Passover seems to have occurred on Friday the 13th. The death of the firstborns of Egypt occurred on a Shabbat on the 14th of Nisan in the evening. But the Jewish calendar counts days from sunset to sunset so this would have been Friday the 13th in terms of the gentile reckoning of the days. (Exodus 12:6) Feminists have argued that because of the lunar year and Friday being named after a goddess in most European pagan calendars, the fear of Friday the 13th is a patriarchal invention, associating femininity with bad luck.\nhttp://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/ma...\n\nSo what is some of the facts behind these superstitions? Well, first of all, let’s distinguish between two fears: \n\n1) Tridecaphobia – fear of the number 13\n\n2) Paraskevidekatriaphobia – fear of Friday the Thirteenth \n\nThe first one, Tridecaphobia, stems from people who just plain hate the number 13. Period. They will go to all extents to avoid the number. I know a few of these people, and sometimes it gets to be quite annoying. One person in particular that I know is unbelievably superstitious. He won’t write a check out if it has the number 13 on it. He purposely avoids being thirteenth in anything. 13 does not exist for him. 12 then 14 does, but not 13. It’s not part of his vocabulary. Extreme, yes, but he has a phobia, after all. \n\nParaskevidekatriaphobia—don’t even ask me to pronounce it, but it’s quite real. People who have this fear will not go out of their house on that day (Friday the 13th), avoid sharp objects on that day—just avoid it all together. The whole day just doesn’t exist on their calendar.
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This is a mystery. All we know is that she got it during childhood but she hates talking about how it happened. I tried looking it up but all sites say the same thing... It's a secret.
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http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/gein/bill_1.html\n\nThe link should basically outline everything about the actual serial killer, Ed Gein, that Leatherface was modeled after. Even has a picture of him in one of the chapters and a couple extra photos.\n\nFrom what I have heard, Tobe Hooper, the director of the first originally overheard the story of Ed Gein when he was younger, and we all know how our imaginations run wild when we're young. Basically, in the long run, it inspired him to create The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.\n\nPersonally, I find it humorous and frustrating all at the same time when I actually meet people who believe Leatherface is still on the loose. Hollywood should use the phrase "Inspired by a True Story" as opposed to "Based on a True Story". Otherwise, people seem to take the movie as fact.
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I like horror stories, so here are some...\n\n***\n\nAbout six or seven years ago, my family lived along Teays Valley Rd. before the big "industrial boom" of Putnam County. Seems like it went from a farming community to a city right before my eyes. Well anyway, We rented land off of a fellow by the name of Jim Umberger. On this land was an extravagant pre-civil war almost Victorian house. It was simply beautiful. Off to the side of this massive antique sat our trailer. Now I was awful young through all of this and kids will have thier fabled ghost stories, but there was something quite odd about this house. Something was down right sour. \n\nThe story had it (and I know nothing of the truth in this) a family was brutally butchered in the house. Back then, there wasa whole lot of nothing for miles around, so no one even found these folks for a good long time. As a youngster, I had the "creeps" about anything just about, but I've never been quite as frightened of a place as I was here. The place had an eerie air to it. To make things even more insane, my stepgrandmother, Evelyn, died of brain cancer there (in our trailer, of course). My other Grandmothers' entire cancer eaten body siezed up and shut down on her, yet she died oficially in a hospital. Strange things went on at this trailer. Pockets of not cool, but cold air in the middle of July, for example. Once in the winter my mother was out on the town. My younger brother and I were watching some TV when there was a knock on the door. There, on the freshly fallen snow, was nothing. No footprints, no tire tracks, nothing. Needless to say I spent the rest of that night with my head buried under the covers. Speaking of doors, once I heard the doorbell ring, seemed innocent enough, but WE DIDN'T HAVE A DOORBELL!! Pictures falling off the wall, creaky floors and long sleepless nights were only minor nuisences we had to deal with everyday. The most disturbing incidences, however, and the most annoying were when the smoke detectors, located in various parts of the trailer, would take turns going off one at a time. \n\nAfter that, they'd go off simultaneously, quite a ruckus. For a long time, I thought I was the only one who felt a presence, then one night, my mother went completely irate screaming "Show yourself, Evelyn! I'm tired of these f*ck*ng games! Show yourself!" We never saw anything. Things continued as they were until we moved. Mr. Umberger sold the land to someone and it became South Brooke, a ritzy subdivision with $500,000+ houses that wouldn't hear of our humble trailer depriciating thier property. However, I believe they'll get theirs, Although they tore the house down for the project, there was a well and a system of underground streams and springs which probably rendered the whole operation illegal. The thing about the springs and wells may not sound important, but in my own personal research I have found negative forces and spirits can channeol themselves through waterways. I'd like to see how South Brooke likes it's neighbors! \n\nI believe I have some pictures of that house somewhere in the mess that is my apartment.\n\n***\n\nThe story I would like to tell is about an apartment building in Spokane, WA. This building is only about seven years old, if y'all are anything like me you expect a haunted house to be all scary and falling down, not clean with nice landscaping. It really started the day after we moved in, my hubby came in from the deck (I am a cigarette nazi - no smoking in ze house!) scared as heck. I have never seen my ex-marine hubby look so scared. He absolutely would not talk about it! hmmmm. \n\nNot two days later my little year and some odd daughter was supposed to be asleep for the night but instead was talking to someone. Of corse, no one was there when I checked, but I swore I could hear an old lady talking to her. I figured it was my dead grandma, she comes to visit now and t
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Good for you.....too bad you just missed Friday the 13th in October!\n\nJust one thing though.  Please do not camp out ON a grave.  It's not even recommended to walk on them!   Try to think of it as being respectful, okay?\n\nOh, yeah, and watch for cops.  Even if you're not doing anything wrong, they'll break it up and make you move along, or worse, drag you home.\n\nBut I'm really glad you guys made it through the night!
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It's the dirty little secret of the cars. They've killed off all the humans and taken over the world.\n\nThey're making a prequel coming out in 2008 that will give all the grisley details of the backstory.
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I was there...\n\nI was riding the A-train (one of many train lines heading into the NYC) on my way to school ( I was in college at the time). \n\nBut things were running very slow due to massive delays in the underground. People grew impatient and starting coming out of the trains, when suddenly rumors started spreading that two "small" planes hit the towers. Details were still hazy as information was being gathered at that point.\n\nThe train conductor had told people either to go home or take the F-train right across the platform. I was one of those people and took the F-train to Chambers street, three blocks from where the towers were hit.\n\nWhen I came up from the subway stairs, it was total grid-lock. Hundreds of thousands of people were crammed around the subway, on the streets. Traffic was non-existant, which was a fete in itself in this city. It seemed like everyone and their mother was on their cell phones, telling their loved ones what they were seeing.  They were all looking up at the same thing: The Burning towers.\n\nI couldn't believe it was that bad. Then I rushed over to the front my school, which is right across from City Hall NYC, and I bumped into a couple of friends. They told me they saw people jumping from the buildings where they stood and that they were totally horrified by what they were seeing. \n\nI worked in my school Library at the time and after finding out bits and pieces of what happened from my buddies outside, I went to inside the library. I rushed in to see my supervisor, but she left because her kids go to school a couple of blocks from the towers. Apparently she panicked and left to find her children right away.\n\nI went to speak to my co-workers and they told me at the time that the Pentagon got hit and some other plane that crashed (which was later found out to be United 93). And I was so freakin' shocked, it was unbelievable.... This was a plot. An actual terrorist plot.\n\nThen that's when it hit me: my aunt works in one of the towers and from there I was in FULL panic mode. \n\nI left the library to catch my breath and from there I wanted to call my dad to tell him what was going on and wanted ask him if heard anything from Auntie Rose(his sister), but couldn't get any service. \n\nThere was a huge-@ss line for use of the public phones for that very reason: Apparently, the lines were so busy that service got cut off.\n\nThen came the most horrible sounds and shaking I won't ever forget. I was like a Richter 10 earthquake the way the building shook. And all of a sudden you heard blood curdling screams and a huge bum rush of people scrambling for their lives. \n\nI was nearly frantic. I didn't know what was going on, so I ran down the other side of the lobby where there were glass windows which allowed you see exactly what was going on outside:  A massive smoke came from all directions of the streets, engulfing everything and everyone around it. It was quite the most horrifying scene I've ever witnessed. \n\nPeople were rushing down the streets in droves, but they couldn't outrun whatever the hell that was engulfing them.\n\nAll I could remember saying at the time, frozen at that very spot, was "Oh....My ...God. Oh, my f**kin' god."  For fear that something was going to crash through the windows, I ran like I never did in my life down the lobby (almost breaking my ankle) and raced down the stairs to the basement area.\n\nFrom there, things became a lot clearer: One of the towers had collapsed...and when I heard that, I couldn't believe it. No one could....  \n\nThe area was packed with students, professors and the security guards tried calming shocked and scared people, telling them  either to head to the basketball courts, which would serve as a make shift bomb-shelter in the Sub-level or for those who wanted to take a chance and run for it acroos the Brooklyn Bridge, were on their own.\n\nIt was one of the hardest decisions
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a story based on false information.\n\nhttp://www.leestrobel.com
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Urban Legend.\nNo company in America would risk such a thing.\nThis is the work of some sick individual(s), who need to be put in jail for their lies.
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I haven't heard much about it, but read this article, it might give you some info.\n\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/07/world/main925895.shtml
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I think there was more to the high-jacking than we have been told. Why I do not know...There has been a lot of talk about the way the twin towers fell. \nThank you for sending this I have enjoyed.
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its about a group of passengers who were trapped in an island where they are unsafe... we still don't know what's the real reason behind them being there... its still the big mystery. but it seems they all have a purpose for being there... each has a business they need to resolve and think about while on the island. we don't know who planned this, who sent them, who set them up... we still have to find that out.Ü\nabout that thing in the forest, i believe its not real... its only part of the "experiment" of that island.
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Part of the following chain message:\n\n\none night these five girls were having a sleepover when they heard choas at the end of her street. they went down to find out what was happening. they learned that a woman was raped and the man was on the loose. so they quickly run home and bolt everything down. everything settles down for a while then they started hearing wierd noises coming from outside. they let their minds go wild so they got scared and hid inside a closet. the man was really outside and found a window that had a broken bolt. he krept in quietly. the girls were scared crapless. he walked into the room and opened the closet, the girls screamed and ran into seperate directions. four of the girls went downstairs and locked the cellar door, that was right above the bathroom. he caught the fifth girl and took her into the bathroom, raped her, and skinned her alive. her friends heard her die that night but couldnt do anything about. they listened to her sratching the door to get out. in the morning when he had fleed, the remaining went into the bathroom. there ingraved into the wall was her message:"how could you have let me die" they looked up to get the tears out of their eyes and saw her flesh dangling from the knife that skinned her. if you dont repost this the man will skin you alive too, because they havent caught him yet. and the girl will make sure you will die, so she can pass on the tale\n\nA girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer.He buried her in the ground when she was still alive.The murderer chanted "Toma soto balca" as he buried her.Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated.If you post this, she will not bother you.Your kindness will be rewarded..
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It was a Friday\n\n\nhttp://www.alexnolan.net/onlinetools/wha...\n\nloads more good info on that site\n\nhttp://www.alexnolan.net/onlinetools/...
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not about me but its a true story. it's a story to tell around a campfire in the night.\n\nsome years ago there was someone who was babysiting a young girl while the parents was out of the house.\nthe girl went to sleep and then came to the baby sitter and said there is clown doll smiling at her. then the babysitter told her its nothing and to go to sleep.\nthe girl came again and said the same thing but this time she was starting to be scared. again she told her to go to sleep.\nagain she told her the same thing but this time she was really scared. again the babysitter told her its nothing and to go to sleep.\nthis time she was really freaking out and the babysitter didnt know what to do so she called the mother and told her about that.\nthe mother said: we dont have a clown doll in our house, leave now!\n\nit accually was a  pedophile that was hiding in her room and watched her going to bad.\nit happened years ago, i dont know when, somewhere in south usa. TRUE STORY.  spoooooky....
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Yes they are.  They are in the stuido right now. Sadly Ryan Dusick(the bands drummer) won't be on this record though. Matt Flynn will be on the new album. (he was the drummer on live friday the 13th.) They hope to have the record out by early fall.