Disappearing male organ on mountaintop baffles authorities

Police in southern Germany are now trying to crack the hard mysterious case of a seven-foot wooden penis that suddenly vanished into thin air after entertaining hikers for years on the top of the Bavarian Alps.

According to an AFP report, a stump and some wood shavings were all that remained on the site where the giant phallus once stood tall. The organ was a two-meter high structure located atop the Alpine village of Rettenberg.

The wooden phallus has grown in fame as a popular photo spot for hikers, even gaining the moniker “Guardian of the Allgäu,” referring to the region where it is located.

It is also listed as a cultural landmark on Google Maps.

"Someone must have sawn it off during the night," a local woman told the local paper Allgaeuer Zeitung.

Bavarian police spokesman Holger Stabik told AFP they have already opened an investigation on the disappearance, but are quite unsure whether a criminal offense has been made because no one knows who erected the genital on the ground in the first place.

"This might not be our leading hypothesis, but it could be the owner who sawed it off to get it back," he said.

The sculpture recently made headlines after it was “re-erected” when it fell down.

The mayor of the place said it was a "great pity" to lose an unusual "cultural monument" that had helped make the region so popular.

A local story went that the sculpture was given as a birthday present to a young lad, but the family didn’t approve of it so it found a new home atop the hill.