NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Well, it’s not the scariest day of the year, but for the superstitious, Friday the 13th is enough to keep you on the edge of your seat. One place proves that it doesn’t have to be bad luck after all.

I wanted to know. Why do we think Friday the 13th is such an unlucky day? So I turned to the experts: random people walking through downtown Nashville.

Check out all the opinions about this day and see a happy cat in the player above.

“Why do we think that?” one mother wondered out loud with her children.

“Because it’s superstition!” one of her children chimed in.

“Maybe Friday is a good day, but 13 is a bad number,” said the mother. “I don’t know!”

“We don’t really know,” smiled a man visiting Nashville. “I don’t care at all!”

“13 is my lucky number!” said one woman.

“But my brother is getting married on Friday the 13th, and that might not bring luck!” added a man who was with her.

The idea that Friday the 13th brings bad luck has been around for a long time, much longer than a film series about a maniac running through the woods.

I asked Sara Whittemore of the Nashville Humane Association.

“Friday the 13th is an unlucky day because the story goes that it was on that day that the Templars fell in 1307,” she said, offering a theory.

“Random facts you already know from elementary school!” Sara laughed.

Nashville Humane addressed the superstitions of the day. Specially for Friday the 13th, they offered half-price adoptions for animals with black fur.

“Even if they have a little bit of black, we qualify them because they’ve been patiently waiting for their forever homes,” Sara said. “Our little black fur babies, they’re often overlooked. They often just disappear into the shelter system just because of their fur color. We decided to play along (Friday the 13th) and put a fun spin on it. They’re going to find their forever homes today!”

“I saw his face and his energy, I immediately fell in love with him!” said Lane Kavanaugh, who adopted the black fur dog Franklin.

“You’re awesome, aren’t you?” Lane asked, patting Franklin on the back.

What a happy, happy day.

If you missed the Friday the 13th Adoption event, don’t worry. Nashville Humane has many upcoming events that you can find here.

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Forrest Sanders recently introduced us to a Nashville hero named Eudora Boxley. She was the first black woman to have a cooking show on TV in Nashville. Her grandson was beautiful as he described Eudora and how she raised him and how proud he and the family were of her impact, not only on WLAC, but on a city during the turbulent civil rights era. A woman who did extraordinary things at a time when history expected her not to.

-Amy Watson