Police in Kansas called out to investigate a report of a bloody foot hanging from the trunk of a car determined it was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.

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A woman motorist called police in Overland Park last week to report sighting the foot, which she said she was sure was part of a child's severed leg, a Police Department blog post by Chief John M. Douglass said.

An investigating officer contacted the woman, who gave him the car's license plate number, which led police to the registered owner's home, where they found no one at home.

Later, another officer returned and interviewed the car's owner and confirmed the "bloody foot" was part of a Halloween decoration, Douglass said in the blog.