Although it’s not entirely clear what they were doing, a handful of police agencies spent most of last week poking around wooded areas in and around northern Seney Township in Schoolcraft County last week.

We do know investigators have said they were looking for human remains, perhaps buried decades ago. What we don’t know is whose remains they sought or what case all of this was in connection to.

Of course, area coffee shops and social media platforms have been abuzz with speculation. A number of people have posited that Jimmy Hoffa, the long, lost ex-president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was the subject of the search.

For the uninitiated, Hoffa disappeared back in 1975 while trying to get the union presidency back after serving a term in prison. He was declared legally dead in 1982. This created quite a stir at the time. Numerous investigations were launched — fizzled out. Leads were followed — that lead nowhere. And, of course, lots and lots of finger pointing.

Something of a cottage industry has grown up around Hoffa’s disappearance; a great many books and magazine articles have been published and online entries made over the years. It’s widely believed Hoffa was killed by the Mafia and his body either cremated, dissolved or secretly interred at a location unknown, such as, perhaps, Seney Township.

The police said information that lead to last week’s local search came into their possession relatively recently, earlier this year, apparently. They are not saying even generally how they came into the information.

Under any circumstance, they found nothing in Seney Township and Jimmy Hoffa remains unaccounted for.