'Human skin' teddy bear at California bus stop draws law enforcement response

Sheriff's deputies were forced to respond to the discovery of a creepy teddy bear that looked like it was made of bloody human tissue before it was found to be harmless, Southern California authorities said Monday

Sheriff's deputies were forced to respond to the discovery of a creepy teddy bear that looked like it was made of bloody human tissue before it was found to be harmless, Southern California authorities said Monday.

The macabre scene unfolded in the Mojave Desert city of Victorville, near a gas station on Bear Valley Road — about 85 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles and 150 miles southwest of the Nevada state line, officials said.

A "doll that was possibly made of human skin" was found a little bit after noon on Sunday, according to a coroner's statement.

A deputy coroner investigator "determined this doll was made of a fabricated material and was not of human origin" before a forensic pathologist also "confirmed that the object was not human and contained no human tissue," the statement said.

"Our investigation found these dolls being sold on a website with the claim that the dolls are 'made of human skin,'” the coroner said.