MANASSAS, Va. (UPI) -- Residents of a neighborhood in Manassas, Va., said someone stole pumpkins but returned them carved in traditional Halloween fashion.

Chrissi Blasius said the mysterious pumpkin carver stole a pumpkin from her front porch and returned it with a face carved out of it, the Manassas (Va.) Journal Messenger reported.

"I had a pumpkin -- a little larger than a basketball -- on my front porch early this week. Someone came during the night, carved it and brought it back. It's amazing," Blasius said. "The pumpkin had two triangle eyes, a triangle nose and a mouth with two teeth missing."

Lisa Harlow said one of her pumpkins was also stolen and was returned and nicely carved the same night.

"It's Halloween and I guess people do strange and weird things," Harlow told the Journal Messenger.