New York Times best-selling true crime author Rebecca Morris was concerned.

Morris lives in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle and was shocked to see a Confederate flag flying off a flagpole right in front of her house. Not wanting to start trouble with a neighbor, Morris instead decided to write her local paper - the Seattle Times - to tip them off and see if there was a perhaps a story behind the flag recently being flaunted just a stone's throw from her home.

The only problem was, it wasn't a confederate flag at all. It was a Norwegian flag.

When The Times drove out to investigate the matter, they knocked on the door of homeowner Darold Norman Stangeland who explained to them that he had been flying the flag of Norway since the Olympics had opened, a symbol of pride for an American of Norwegian descent.

The Times informed Morris that she had been mistaken.

Morris says she had even looked up the Confederate flag online, but perhaps she simply didn't look hard enough.

Read the complete story from the Seattle Times.