It’s Friday the 13th – lock your doors and count your cats.

If you’re superstitious, today is not a good day.

But does anybody really know why?

Actually, the number 13 is surrounded by so much superstition that hotels often skip the 13th floor and instead count 12, 14, 15 and up.

The Historic Davenport Hotel doesn’t have a 13th floor, nor do the much newer Davenport Towers, or the Davenport Grand Hotel, though all of them are taller than that.

Matt Jensen, director of communication and marketing at the Davenport Hotel Collection, said he’s been in the hotel business for 30 years, but has yet to work at a hotel with a floor 13/Pia Hallenberg, SR. More here.