PENSACOLA, Fla. — Human remains discovered Saturday by Boy Scouts underneath a Pensacola, Florida, building have prompted an investigation.
The scouts, who were conducting a cleanup as part of an Eagle Scout project, found the remains under an East La Rua Street structure, the Pensacola Police Department stated in a news release.
The remains were found in a crawl space under the city-owned structure, designated a historical building, that has been used intermittently by civic groups, including the Boy Scouts, WEAR-TV reported.
According to the release, staff with the Escambia County Medical Examiner’s Office concluded that the bones are human, the Pensacola News Journal reported.
Anthropologists from the University of West Florida’s department of anthropology are assisting in the investigation, the PNJ reported.