hen I was in Florida I went to a hotel called the crown plaza in Orlando and I was in the lift when I noticed there was a fourteenth and and a twelfth floor but no thirteenth floor and It wasn't a staff floor or anything cause I counted the floors on the way up by looking at the numbers on the walls ( It was a glass lift) . Anyway I was wodnering do you think it's something paranormal ? or did they just forget to put the floor there? Or is it a superstitious thing?
A lot of hotels skip the 13th floor in the elevator because people don't want to stay on the 13th floor because they think it's bad luck. Really the 14th floor is actually the 13th floor but they call it that so people don't complain to the hotel and asked to be moved when they get stuck on the 13th floor.
Superstitious. In 1823, a hotel had 13 floors. They believed it was the number that was strange and was causing this: The lights kept turning on if they are on, there were sightings of little pitch black shadows, fans would turn on, windows would shut. Reported by someof the people on the twelfth floor there were a lot of footsteps on the floor above them. The fourteenth reported there were people pounding on the ceiling in the thirteenth floor. Nobody could reach the ceiling. And the floor was to seperate sounds, nothing could travel threw it. Something strange was happening. They believed the number '13' was the cause for this. Not all hotels are superstitous anymore but still some are. Yes, their is a place in Orlando, Florida not in Crown Plaza but one called River Seats is the one that was doing this. Oh yeah, another report back then, all the bibles from all the rooms were thrown out in the hall, people found out in the morning. I do not believe it was the 13 number. But I believe it was a ghost on the 13th floor. I know there are places like that. I have been in River Seats before. The 13th floor is no forbidden. They still have the hotel up though. I once secretly snuck on the 13th floor late at night. It acted up a little. Like a toilet flushed is all. But even that just made me get the hell out of that hotel. It usually acts up when there is someone in there. Yeah, scary. During that time, people kept leaving without excuses and never came back to that hotel at all. Just people on the 13th floor.
It's always like that, no 13th floor. it is a supersticious thing...it has to be. I understand that long ago it was understood that for bad luck sake, no hotels or ny tall building would have floor 13.I can't remember off hand where I read it, but I do recall tha fact.
Yes. They also do not have a room 13. It's the same with hospitals also. It's all about superstition because so many people think that 13 is an unlucky number.. But for me 13 is a lucky number.
It's a superstitious thing. The number 13 is associated with bad luck in some countries, and even has a specifically recognized phobia, Triskaidekaphobia, a word which was coined in 1911. Friday the 13th has been considered an unlucky day since the 1800s, as a combination between an unlucky day, Friday, and the number 13. The levels of a multi-story building are numbered sequentially, from basement, one or ground upwards. In some countries, the number 13 is considered unlucky and building owners will sometimes purposefully omit a floor so numbered.[1] Hence, the 13th floor is given the number 14. Even landlords who are not themselves superstitious realize that the desirability of suites on a floor 13 might be compromised because of superstitious tenants, or commercial tenants who worry about losing superstitious customers. Based on an internal review of records, Dilip Rangnekar of Otis Elevators estimates that 85% of the buildings with elevators did not have a floor named the 13th floor.[2] Also the Disney ride The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror is known to have 13 floors, even though the dial on the elevator goes to 12. When on the elevator the doors have the numbers 13 on it, showing that the floor should not exist.
