POLL: Do You Believe in Friday the 13th?

Jason Voorhees and the Halloween movies that scared so many over the years now have the closest association with Friday the 13th. But outside of fictional killers and teenage slash films, the actual relevance of the date is up for debate.

Some, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino being one, would say there's actually some luck to the number 13. Other's would disagree.

There is some relevance to the date outside of folklore and fiction, a 2004 article by National Geographic cited estimations that the United States loses between $800 and $900 million on this day because people are afraid to buy plane tickets, stocks or homes. 

The same article estimates that between 17 and 21 million Americans have a phobia of Friday the 13.

Why the fear? Reasons vary.

A Time Magazine article from 2009 estimates that 13 might have been unlucky as early as 1700 B.C, when the number was left out of Hammurabi's Code. The article also mentions that 13 people attended the Last Supper.

The tie with Friday, the article says, didn't come in to play until the early 1900s, when a popular book took hold of America's imagination. That was, of course, followed by Jason's appearance on the big screen years later in 1978.

So are you one of the millions who pay attention to the Friday the 13th scare? Let us know in the poll below.