Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he once dumped a dead bear in Central Park as a joke

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s is owning up to a viral mystery that once left New Yorkers baffled… admitting that he dumped a bear carcass in Central Park and threw a bicycle on top of it as a prank.

The independent presidential candidate posted a video on his official X account on Sunday describing the incident, apparently to preempt a story soon to be published by The New Yorker.

In the bizarre video, RFK Jr. is sitting in a diner explaining that he once went to Goshen, New York on a falconry trip and while driving there, he claims a woman in front of him ran over and killed a bear cub.

Kennedy, not one to waste good bear meat, says he grabbed the cub and threw it in his car, an action he says is allowed under New York state law.

After a day of falconry that lasted longer than expected, Kennedy says he drove to New York to have dinner with friends instead of returning to his home in Westchester to refrigerate the bear.

Dinner was also long… and RFK Jr. had a flight to catch… but he didn’t want to leave the bear in his car.

Instead of calling someone to come pick up the car with the bear inside, he and his dinner companions thought it would be fun to take the bear and put it in Central Park with an old bicycle on top.

At the time, RFK Jr. explained, a number of pedestrians had been hit and killed by bicyclists in the park… and he and his (admittedly drunk) companions thought whoever found the bear would find it amusing.

Of course, They didn’t do it — and authorities, including the New York Police Department’s Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad, rushed to Central Park to investigate… though the investigation eventually lost steam and Kennedy says no one contacted him until New Yorker investigators put the pieces together.

Worth noting… Kennedy’s reaction during this video is pretty nonchalant, though many online are completely shocked by this saga.