Whats wrong with the "13th floor"?

Question

why are there superstitions about it??

Answer 1

there are no number 13 floors lol

Answer 2

It's just an unlucky number.

Answer 3

13 is unlucky

Answer 4

The number 13 is known to bring bad luck.

13th floor, house nummbered 13, 13th person to sit in a table, friday the 13th... all of these have history of bringing bad luck

Answer 5

13 number is considered as a bad omen that is all !!!

Answer 6

a perfect witches coven has 13 members.

Answer 7

Some people are silly I guess, it was fun for a minute to have all those silly superstitions my mom had me believing before I knew better.Black cats, walking under a ladder, break a mirror and have 7 years of bad luck, don't open an umbrella in a building of any kind, if two people are walking together and they come upon a pole, they can't split in two directions and each take a side of the pole, they have to go around the same side of the pole together and say "salt and pepper" and the famous number 13 being such bad luck. The only ones I haven't been able to laugh at are "shoes on a table" I don't care where I'm at what I'm doing I can not be in a room that has shoes on a table....I will usually remove them where ever I may be...if I can't I will leave the room. SOOOOOOO SILLY. but all in fun. The other one is the pole one. Where in the world do these silly things start?

Answer 8

people think 13 is bad luck. silly, but true.

Answer 9

nothing, 13 is just bad luck

Answer 10

13 has been known to be an unlucky number..

but in the world of tattooing 13 is a lucky number..

so you decide :)

Answer 11

In religion

Christianity:

There were thirteen participants at the Last Supper. Tradition states that Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table.

Thirteen was once associated with the Epiphany by Christians, as it is said the child Jesus received the Magi on his thirteenth day of life.

Judaism:

In Judaism, 13 signifies the age at which a boy matures and becomes a Bar Mitzvah (Age of 12 for Girls, or Bat Mitzvah).

The number of principles of Jewish faith according to Maimonides

According to the Torah, God has 13 Attributes of Mercy

In Mesoamerican Divination, 13 is the number of important cycles of fortune/misfortune.

Unlucky 13:

The stall numbers at the Santa Anita Park show that 13 is considered an unlucky number in horse racing.

Thirteen is regarded as an unlucky number. Fear of the number 13 is termed triskaidekaphobia. The thirteenth of a month is likewise ominous, particularly when it falls on a Friday in some English-speaking cultures, Sweden, Russia, Belgium and Germany (see Friday the 13th) or a Tuesday in the Greek and Spanish-speaking world.

Answer 12

It is just superstition. However, it is just the numbering - of course there are actully 13 levels, it is just that it is now called level 14 instead and the number is just ommited.

Answer 13

Nothing wrong with 13th floor.

Answer 14

its bad luck like someone said there were alot of deaths and strange occurinsas pardon the spelling that happened on the 13th floor of building so it was deamed unlucky so most biulding go from 12 to 14 but really when your on the 14th floor you know where you really are

Answer 15

its cursed

Answer 16

Just the usual c**p about the number 13....and that's all it is.  The number 13 can just as easily be a good number...just ask Dan Marino....or Alex Rodriguez.

Answer 17

oh gosh im 13 years old yall are scaring me! lol and my birthday is in october next to halloween! yall arnt helping ppl!

Answer 18

It's number 13. You know, the old superstition of 13 being unlucky (for a variety of reasons).

In many places in America you will find the floors go like this:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15...

NO floor 13.

Even though technically level 14 is 13, people feel safer if it isn't called floor 13. I have even heard a lot of hotels leaving the 13th floor for laundry or some random task like that. Because people will specifically ask NOT to be put on the 13th.

In China they do the same thing...except it's with another number, can't remember what it is though.

EDIT: "The Druid" said that a lot of deaths would occur in construction of the 13th floor. Well, that's true as well. Heaps of buildings had odd things happen while building the 13th floor of a building. So that's also part of why it is unlucky.

Answer 19

During the construction of high rise buildings, many accidents happened on the 13th floor.  Unexplained things, deaths and so on.  So they deemed the 13th floor unlucky.

Answer 20

the myth of friday the 13th comes is explained in the da vinci code. some battle broke out that day, and hence it is considered unlucky. However there is nothing spiritual behind it. It is just a bad event that occurred on fri 13th that got carried forward.