NEWBURGH, Ind. (WFIE) - Halloween is supposed to be scary, but it’s meant to be fun as well.

Many neighbors in one Newburgh neighborhood are say they are seeing something that isn’t fun.

Residents are calling for the removal of a realistic depiction of a man being hung from a tree.

Neighbors, Betsy and Danny Matthews say this is not the way to capture the Halloween spirit.

“Well I drove by it the first day I saw it and a couple times...’Is that real?’, ‘Is that real?’, then I stopped and looked at it and I said ‘Oh, that could be real but it’s not,’” Danny says.

Many people contacted 14 News to complain.

They say the decoration looks more like a depiction of a lynching or a suicide.

Betsy says it can be triggering, and reminds her of tragic experience she had in her childhood.

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