Friday the 13th is feared by millions of people (Credit: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley/ CC BY-SA 3.0/ Wikimedia Commons)

This Friday is the 13th! For non-believers, it is just the start of a well-deserved weekend. However, the millions of people who suffer from "paraskevidekatriaphobia" consider Friday the 13th the unluckiest day of the year. No one knows how the day got its fearsome reputation. But experts have some theories.