Massachusetts cops close off popular public beach over ‘dead body’ that ended up being a crumpled blanket

It’s no “Weekend at Bernie’s.”

Massachusetts police spent Wednesday morning roping off parts of a popular public beach after receiving reports of an “unattended death” that turned out to be a crumpled-up blanket, authorities said.

Massachusetts State Police arrived at Revere Beach, a summer hotspot just 6 miles northwest of Boston, around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday to probe the grim report.

Video captured by a passerby showed five officials standing on the beach cordoning off a large section of the three-mile shore with yellow caution tape while a sixth person waded into the sea.

A police boat was also further out off the shore, according to the footage.

Police originally described the situation as an “unattended death.” They said they found what they believed to be a dead body on the beach wrapped in a sheet, according to Boston 25.

But when officers opened the bulky, corpse-shaped blanket — expecting to make a grisly discovery, it was empty, cops later corrected.

“It’s been confirmed that the item in question is a large blanket rolled up. There has been no body of any type recovered,” Sergeant Gregory Jones confirmed in a statement to the local outlet.

It’s unclear how the blanket turned up on the shore in the first place, or if it was left by a spacey beachgoer the night before.

The hasty authorities turned all further questions over to the Massachusetts district attorney’s office.

In a similarly odd case in Idaho earlier this month, cops there spent three hours searching for a reported corpse in a river, only to find a life-sized sex doll floating downstream.

The team spared no expense and even rolled out a full drone search while looking for what was nothing more than an inflatable plaything.

Still, authorities had no regrets, noting how disastrous the situation could’ve been if a real person had fallen into the water and they’d opted not to go “all out.”