Today, it might be best to stay home. It is Friday, the 13^th, and many people believe it brings bad luck. In fact, this whole year, 2026, must be unlucky. There are three Friday the 13ths in the month; February, March and November all boast of the bad-luck date.

No one is exactly sure why it is considered unlucky. One possible connection is with the number 13, as there were 13 people at the last supper before Jesus’s death.

But, whatever the reason, many people feel the day is unlucky. The old newspapers have several stories about Friday the 13. In this story we will see a few.

In fact, as we see in the Wind River Mountaineer, Friday, March 13, also came along in 1914.

Friday The Thirteenth! Again? Perchance, your plans go awry today or ill-luck of any kind befalls you, blame the calendar, for today is Friday the thirteenth, a day of evil-omen. By influence of this ill-starred chronological combination the jinx holds sway.

Be Careful – It is extremely inadvisable on Friday the thirteenth to spring mother- in-law jokes on your wife, or to tell her that important business at the lodge kept you out until three o’clock this morning. Neither is it advisable on this day of sinister portend to start on that tour abroad that you have been planning all your life, pay all your debts at once or to ask a stranger for change for a thousand-dollar bill.

Symptoms of the jinx on Friday the thirteenth include a show of annoyance when you catch members of the family using your pet razor to trim their corns, to have your feet hurt when some one steps on your corns, or to feel a burning sensation In your throat when you swallow hot mush

Luckily, Friday the thirteenth will not occur thirteen times in the year. It came last month, is with us today, but it will not happen again until November.

The same with 2026. We only have one more Friday the 13th, and that will be in November too.

Wyoming State Tribune, Cheyenne Friday, May 13, 1921 – Friday 13 Puts Superstitious On Watch For Cats

Thirteen is one terrible number —means everything and everybody attached to it and in the vicinity of it for one for one awful time. But when the calendar bangs a big black 13 around Friday’s neck—ursus horriblus amerlcanus!

The people cavort in painful efforts to prevent mirrors from breaking and felines, the deep, dark color of midnight, from crossing their paths on that pretentious day.

Cheyenne’s cops kept on the gui-vive Friday for untold killings and massacres, but the day was provokingly calm – sweet, spring breezes floating back and forth over the city with imperturbable peacefulness mocked the near mad- populace; motorists for once obeyed the speed laws, pedestrians the ethics of the noble necessity of ambulation in traffic-ridden down town districts, and even dogs kept clear of cats.

The Casper Daily Tribune, April 20, 1924

Wind River Mountaineer, March 13, 1914 – Friday – The Thirteenth! Again? Mercy! Help! Superstitious? Then look out! Beware the Jinx— Symptom Give Warning Will Not Happen Again Until Next November. Thank You.

Perchance, your plans go awry today, or ill-luck of any kind befalls you, blame the calendar, for today is Friday the thirteenth, a day of evil omen. By influence of this ill-starred chronological combination the jinx holds sway.

Be Careful – It is extremely inadvisable on Friday the thirteenth to spring mother-in-law jokes on your wife, or to tell her that important business at the lodge kept you out until three o’clock this morning. Neither is it advisable on this day of sinister portend to start on that tour abroad that you have been planning all your life, pay all your debts at once or to ask a stranger for change for a thousand-dollar bill.

Symptoms of the jinx on Friday the thirteenth include a show of annoyance when you catch members of the family using your pet razor to trim their corns, to have your feet hurt when some one steps on your corns, or to feel a burning sensation In your throat when you swallow hot mush

Luckily, Friday the thirteenth will not occur thirteen times in the year. It came last month, is with us today, but it will not happen again until November.

This from the Wyoming Tribune (Cheyenne), November 13, 1914 – Friday the Thirteenth. Today is Friday the Thirteenth, known the country over as an unlucky day. This is the third time 1914 that Friday has fallen on the thirteenth day of the month. It will not occur again, we assure you. That is —It will not occur again this year. We could tell you whether it will occur again next year, but we won’t, as we are not on good terms with the mayor and don’t want him to get the impression that we are opposing him in his war against clairvoyants. The three months of 1914 in which the thirteenth was Friday were February, March and November. We just looked it up on the calendar, is how we know.

Friday the 13^th is especially bad luck if it happens when Halley’s Comet also appears in the sky. This from the Cheyenne State Leader, May 13, 1910 – All Sorts of Ill Luck Due Proverbially ill-starred Friday, the 13, made more formidable by Presence of comet. If Those Who Believe in signs and Omens Get Through Today With out Disaster, They Will Be Most ‘Agreeably Astonished at Escape. Today is “Friday, the Thirteenth” and Halley’s comet is only ‘steen or 90 million miles away.”

With this combination to beat, it would seem useless to carry a whole pocket full of rabbit feet in order to ward off each, everyone and all the evil things which go with either the “Thirteenth,” Friday or the comet. According to the capacity, for working bad luck with which each of the three is accredited, today “Friday the Thirteenth,” will be so filled with evil happenings that this dear, beautiful old earth of our’s will make Dante’s Inferno look like a flicker of the perfumed wax taper with which some delicate female lights a cigarette. Everyone knows what to attribute to”thirteen” and also to Friday.

Some will maintain that they attribute nothing to either, but a human being is only human after all and it might as well be confessed that every one feels easier when either of the two have been safely passed through. But everyone does not know the many horrible and destructive events that are charged to Halley’s comet and a, few of them are here with given.

This fiery long-tailed monster has been traced back to the year of 11 B. C. While it was speeding around the earth on this occasion, Agrippa, the beloved Roman, who ruled over Rome in the absence of Augustus, died. Seventy-six years later, or in the year of 66 A.D., the comet appeared simultaneously with a virulent outbreak of the plague which spread over the earth.

It appeared next in the year 218 and remained until after the death of Emperor Ween-te of China and Emperor Macrinus of Rome.

The bloody civil wars of the various contenders for Chinese throne, were also fought under the light of the comet on this visit. The comet appeared after this at average intervals of seventy-five years and was attended by great disasters which shortage of space make it impossible to give.

It wasvisible during the rebellion of the ancient Britons against the Romans; the “Human Deluge” In 373 A.. D.; the invasions of Tartar savages into Europe in 451; the Slavonian invasion of Italy; then the black plague of 648; the killing Frost of 760 which lasted 159 days;

The battlefield of Hastings was lighted by the comet; it appeared shortly before and remained until after the downfall of Pope Eugenlus III; the Spanish invaders slaughtered the first inhabitants of South America under its glow; it ushered in the thirty year war in Germany and incited the Virginia Indians to massacre the white setters at the same time.

Frederick the Great was over thrown while the comet was visible and during a visit of the Celestial Monster the French in America were defeated on the Plains of Abraham by Wolfe. During the comet’s former visit to these regions in; 1835, the New York fire started and almost totally destroyed the city, the black plague broke out in Egypt, the Florida Indians fell on the whites and slew them, American soldiers were ambushed and murdered at Fort King and a number-of other bloody fights took place between the Indians and the whites with great loss. The above incidents all happened, while Halley’a comet was shining brightly.

So, if anyone should be hit in the eye today by a weird looking object it should be recalled that today is “Friday the Thirteenth” and is given over to unpleasant happenings.

So, if you are superstitious, you may want to be extra careful today. And there is one more Friday the 13th coming up later in the year. Have a good, maybe, Friday the 13.