So you needed a key to make the elevator stop on 13.
Thirteenth floor superstition.
In some skyscrapers in the world the 13th floor does not even exist.
Real estate agents tend not to have problems selling units on the particular floor but the fact is that most buildings lack them anyway.
Getty thinkstock keeping with the reputation of the day here are some things that believers follow avoid on the day.
The thirteenth floor is a designation of a level of a multi level building that is often omitted in countries where the number 13 is considered unlucky.
The most common include denoting what would otherwise be considered the thirteenth floor as level 14 giving the thirteenth floor an alternate designation such as 12a or m the.
They skip a floor entirely reserving it for storage and maintenance instead.
Some hotels do away with a 13th floor.
This phobia has created traditions such as builders strategically forgetting the 13th floor when.
The fear of 13.
The superstition surrounding the number 13 that has been passed down from generation to generation is that thirteen is not a lucky number.
Aside from friday the 13th some people have a separate fear of the number 13.
Throughout every corner of this earth someone looks to avoid the number thirteen at all costs.
Omitting the 13th floor may take a variety of forms.
But if there is even a minuscule chance that a 13th floor unit won t sell due to superstition then a developer will just as quickly avoid the risk and skip from 12 to 14.
I thought that was interesting in staying true to not having guests stay on a wrongly numbered floor 13th floor labeled as 14 still makes it the 13th floor.
A broken mirror is said to bring you bad luck.
All this bowing to superstition continues despite some anecdotal evidence that the thirteenth floor is not scary for most buyers.
Alexandra bellak a broker with douglas elliman real estate said in the atlantic that he d never had a buyer reject a thirteenth floor apartment li 2015.