Beware—Friday the 13th is here. December 13 would’ve been just Taylor Swift’s birthday, but now that the 13th falls on a Friday, the Christmas-spirited month just got a little spooky. Friday the 13th ...

Today is Friday the 13th, an occurrence that happens only a couple of times a year. The day has come to be associated with superstition, luck and magic, though it has some surprising origins.

Friday the 13th may be an unlucky day by many superstitious standards, but it has become known as a lucrative one in the ink industry. Just as with pumpkins at Halloween and turkeys at Thanksgiving, ...

(This article was updated to correct an error regarding the 2025 Friday the 13th date.) Happy Friday the 13th! Today is the first of two Friday the 13ths that will ...