Monster Fly Attacks Yorkshire

A monster fly three feet in length and with an 18 inch dagger like tongue caused mayhem when it escaped from a laboratory and went on the rampage in Yorkshire in February, 1932. This is according to a contemporary Bulgarian newspaper and reported by Reuters in several British papers a few months later when it created quite a buzz...

Sources

Sheffield Daily Telegraph 12 December 1932; Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer,  12 December 1932