BAD SEGEBERG , Germany, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Police investigating reports of a corpse on a German train near the town of Bad Segeberg said the reported body was actually a drunken man dressed as a zombie.

The Halloween reveler had fallen into a drunken sleep on the train ride home from a party in Hamburg, and his gore-covered zombie costume was mistaken by fellow passengers for a bloody corpse, Sky News reported Tuesday.

Police were called when passengers couldn't get a response from the man but a first aid team quickly determined that the man wasn't dead, merely sleeping. The police told him to remove his apparently realistic makeup and he was allowed to continue his train ride home.

"Bad Segeberg is in a rural area and Halloween isn't very well known there," police spokeswoman Sikle Tobies told Sky News.

"So people weren't expecting anyone to be dressed up in the train."