Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a dead bear

In a surprising revelation, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disclosed that he dumped a dead bear in New York City's Central Park nearly a decade ago. The admission, highlighted by Politico, came in a video released on social media Sunday afternoon, where Kennedy recounted the incident to actress Roseanne Barr.

Kennedy's decision to share this story appears to be preemptive, as he suggested in the video that he was addressing the incident ahead of a pending story in the New Yorker, which had inquired about it.

According to Kennedy, he did not kill the bear but found it already deceased, hit by another driver, during a falconing expedition in the Hudson Valley.

He initially planned to take the bear home to skin it but ended up driving directly to a dinner at Peter Luger Steak House in New York City. Faced with the dilemma of what to do with the bear carcass before heading to the airport, Kennedy decided to leave it in Central Park alongside an abandoned bicycle.

The story aligns with an incident reported by The New York Times in October 2014, where a dead bear was discovered in Central Park near an abandoned bicycle. At the time, the circumstances surrounding the bear's death and its appearance in the park were not publicly known.

Kennedy claimed he planted the bear with the bicycle to fit a narrative about a series of bike accidents in the city. He admitted to feeling nervous when the story was featured on "every television station," fearing he might be linked to the incident. "Luckily the story died after a while, and it stayed dead for a decade, and the New Yorker somehow found out about it," Kennedy stated in the video.

This unusual revelation comes at a time when Kennedy's presidential campaign has been facing challenges, with his poll numbers declining since President Joe Biden's exit from the race last month. It adds to a series of strange stories surrounding Kennedy, including a previous claim made during divorce proceedings that a worm had eaten part of his brain.

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