SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTY, MI — Michigan State Police, along with federal agents, concluded a search last week for human remains in the remote, eastern Upper Peninsula.

State police received information earlier this year that possible human were buried several decades ago in a location in northern Seney Township, according to Michigan State Police Eighth District’s X account.

A weeklong investigation ended on Oct. 16 without any human remains found in the Schoolcraft County area, according to MSP.

The Federal Bureau of Investigations confirmed they were working with MSP the week of Oct. 6 but did not go into further detail, according to reporting from the Lansing State Journal.

State police investigated the tip “out of an abundance of caution” and “coordinated with additional law enforcement agencies to search an area of remote terrain.”

Multiple agencies were on the scene and shut down parts of the isolated U.P. town that sits about 93 miles from the Mackinac Bridge and 50 miles from Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

Restricted areas will reopen as law enforcement leaves now that the search is closed, according to MSP.

Seney Township is one of the state’s least-densely populated municipality with a population of 115, according to the 2020 census.

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