This Day in Halloween: Knights Templar are arrested in Paris in October 1307 in one possible origin of the Friday the 13th superstition. / Illustration by David Ford
Grand Master Jacques de Molay and sixty fellow Knights Templar are arrested in Paris by order of King Phillip IV of France on Friday the 13th of October,1307. The incident is at least one possible origin of the Friday the 13th superstition.
