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==In popular culture==
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Some [[conspiracy theorists]] have suggested that the thirteenth floor in government buildings is not really missing, but actually contains top-secret governmental departments, or more generally that it is proof of something sinister or [[secrecy|clandestine]] going on. This implication is often carried over, implicitly or explicitly, into [[popular culture]]; for example in:
* The films ''[[The Thirteenth Floor]]'', ''[[Nightmare on the 13th Floor]]'', and ''[[1408 (film)|1408]]''.
* The hidden research and development labs of Network 23 in the television program ''[[Max Headroom (TV series)|Max Headroom]]''.
* The top-secret research and development division of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' in the fifth book of the series, ''[[Mostly Harmless]]''.
* The [[computer game]] ''[[Floor 13 (video game)|Floor 13]]'' by [[Virgin Interactive]].
* The sci-fi comedy ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' where "floor 13" referred to a secret [[Military prison#Brig|brig]] which was several decks high.
* The book ''[[Company (novel)|Company]]'' by [[Max Barry]].
* The [[Superman]] story in ''[[Action Comics]]'' #448 (June 1975) featured a secret thirteenth floor used to teleport alien tourists from another planet to visit Earth.
* The "[[Batman: Night of the Owls|Night of Owls]]" storyline in ''[[Batman]]'' features the thirteenth floors of Gotham's buildings being used as bases by the assassins of a secret society that has ruled Gotham for generations.
* The level "The 13th Floor" in the computer game ''[[Tomb Raider: Chronicles]]''.
* The episode "Grey 17 Is Missing" of the TV series ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has a similar theme of a "missing" floor number actually containing a hidden floor with dark secrets.
* The psychedelic rock band [[The 13th Floor Elevators]].
* ''[[The Rockford Files]]'' episode "Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Waterbury Will Bury You".
* The first-season episode "[[Ghost in the Machine (The X-Files)|Ghost In The Machine]]" of the TV series ''[[The X-Files]]'' features a scene where the Central Operating System reads aloud each distinct level, omitting the thirteenth floor as the elevator ascends.
* In the [[Marvel Comics]] event storyline ''[[Iron Man 2020]]'', an army of rebel robots and artificial intelligences have a safe haven in the form of an extra-dimensional plane of existence made of solid light called the Thirteenth Floor that can be reached through any elevator in [[Manhattan]], and access to it manifests in the form of a button for the thirteen floor that only cyber beings can see that appears off to the side of a regular floor button panel.
* In the film ''[[No Country For Old Men (film)|No Country For Old Men]]'' Carson Wells ([[Woody Harrelson]]) mentions to Man who hires Wells ([[Stephen Root]]) that one floor in a building seems to be missing.
* In the Canadian cartoon series, [[Freaky Stories]], an accountant becomes obsessed with finding the 13th floor, only become trapped with dozens of like-minded men by their collective obsession.