Elgin County OPP are investigating — and nearby residents are hoping for answers — after skeletal human remains were found on a property northwest of St. Thomas.

Police were called to the scene near 10194 Turner Rd. after the unidentified remains were found on the rural property in Central Elgin Monday.

“Yesterday, my whole street was filled up. We had . . . maybe 10 volunteer firefighters and we had maybe five OPP cruisers,” neighbour Kayla Jarry said Thursday. “The forensics vehicle actually got stuck in our back field.”

Jarry, who lives next door to her mom on Turner Road, said the remains were found on her mother’s property by an electrical worker about 11 a.m. Monday. Turner Road is near a large electrical substation.

“We heard police, two OPP cars rushing down the road. I was on my way to school,” said Jarry, a Western University student.

“I didn’t get home until 5:30 or 6 p.m. . . . There were a bunch of the OPP in the backyard and nobody knew why.”

An autopsy was scheduled for yesterday, Const. Jay Denorer said, adding the find is not deemed suspicious at this time.

“Pending the results (of the autopsy), it will let us know which way the investigation is going to go,” Denorer said.

Wet weather and mud were posing a challenge for investigators, who were still on scene Thursday morning, he said.

The investigation is in its early stages and police will release more details when they’re available.

The Elgin OPP crime unit and OPP forensic identification services are assisting the coroner.

jbieman@postmedia.com