Horror Movie Hallmark Found In Lancashire Backyard
The Jonathan Demme film The Silence of the Lambs, starring Oscar winners Jodie Foster and Sir Anthony Hopkins, is one of the seminal films of the 1990’s. It tells the tale of young FBI trainee Clarice Starling who enlists the help of incarcerated cannibal and serial killer Hannibal Lecter to catch a man on a twisted murder spree. The film’s iconic poster featured the Death’s-Head moth, a calling card used by the mysterious murderer. While its native home is tropical Africa, is was recently spotted in one of the last place you might expect.
In Blackburn, a town in Lancashire, England, a schoolboy happened upon a Death’s-Head moth the size of a small bat in his backyard, one of only five sightings in the past 173 years. While most believe the large insect to be a harbinger of doom, the creature is relatively harmless – it feeds on honeybees and use its the incredible speed of its wings to float about like a hummingbird.
