Friday the 13th occurs at least once a year and sometimes up to three times a year. It only happens once in 2025 — today, June 13 — but there will be three Friday the 13ths in 2026.

Depending how you look at it, Friday the 13th can be considered a lucky or an unlucky day. Just ask Taylor Swift, Megan Fox, Jennifer Aniston and more celebrities who believe in superstitions.

“In the case of Friday the 13th, this taboo derives from the Christian story of the Last Supper,” said Phillips Stevens Jr., an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Buffalo.

Friday the 13th occurs at least once a year and sometimes up to three times a year. It only happens once in 2025 — today, June 13 — but there will be three Friday the 13ths in 2026.

There will only be one Friday the 13th in 2025, in June. The day has come to be associated with superstition, luck and magic, though it has some surprising origins.

Bad news: it's this week. Friday the 13th, long held to be an unlucky day in Western culture and the inspiration for a long-running horror movie franchise, means different things to different people.

In Thomas W. Lawson’s sensational 1907 novel, “Friday, the 13th,” the fear of the date is amplified when a broker takes advantage of the superstition to create Wall Street panic.

There's only one Friday the 13th in 2025. That's good news for people who think it's bad luck. Why the fear? What to know about history, superstitions ...

This superstition deepened over time, particularly after the mass arrest of the Knights Templar on Friday, October 13th, 1307, further cementing the day’s unlucky status.