This is the Yes or BS blog, where you can play the game for yourself. Either pick a random story from the pictures below, or choose your specialist subject from the categories listed here. Just read the story through and decide whether, YES, you think it’s true, or no, you think it’s total B.S—then click you answer in the box at the bottom of each post to see if you’re correct.
“Dear Diary, you won’t believe what happened to me today...” (Public domain/Wikimedia) Charles Dickens was mugged while walking alone along Chatham harbour in Kent in 1859. But in a twist akin to Magwitch’s reappearance in Great Expectations, Dickens instantly recognised his attacker. The man in question was Henry Tilbury, an old schoolfriend of Dickens from his formative years living in Chatham, before his family moved back to London with his father’s work in 1822. Although
Everyone knows that Shakespeare’s Macbeth is supposedly a cursed play. Quite where that reputation comes from is unknown, but tales of nightmarishly ill-fated performances have cropped up in theatrical folklore for centuries. Macbeth strikes a pose: I hope that’s a sword hanging down there (Wikipedia/Public domain) But of all these disastrous stagings, perhaps the most accursed was an amateur production of “The Scottish Play” put on at the Cavalcade Theatre in Andersonville,