The holiday even has roots in the D-FW area (Dallas, to be specific): On Friday, June 13, 2008, Elm Street Tattoo shop co-owner Oliver Peck decided to tattoo the number 13 on as many customers as ...

Fun fact: The Friday the 13th trend was popularized in the 1990s by the Dallas-based tattoo artist Oliver Peck, who noted that the tradition may have originated with notoriously superstitious ...