Friday the 13th - superstitious Sunderland - video Dailymotion

Sunderland storms, arm breaks, and unlucky house builds - all with a number 13 link

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00:00Does Friday the 13th have you on the edge of your seat?

00:04Whether it does or not, we took a look at the number 13, and memories from we aside.

00:11Let's start in 1957, when not a single ship left port, on Friday December the 13th because

00:19of a huge storm in Sunderland.

00:22In 2006, Sunderland man Jim Thompson broke his arm and two other family members were

00:28injured.

00:29In 2012, the Mecca Bingo held a special Friday the 13th session, with specially stamped bingo

00:37cards to hopefully strike it lucky.

00:41But did you?

00:42That same year, a Merton man did renovations on two adjacent houses numbered 12 and 13.

00:51The progress on number 12 was smooth, but there were issues galore in number 13, including

00:58plumbing and electrics.

01:00Tell us about your dramas on Friday the 13th by emailing chris.cordner at nationalworld.com