WATCH: In Bizarre Clip, RFK Jr. Admits To Dumping Dead Bear In Central Park - 'Maybe That's Where I Got My Brain Worm'

In a video posted to social media on Sunday, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. admitted to dumping a dead bear in Central Park in New York City in 2014, solving a bizarre decade-long mystery. The video was put out to get ahead of a lengthy story in The New Yorker that focused on Kennedy's presidential campaign, entitled "What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Actually Want?"

The controversial third-party candidate has been at the center of various scandals in recent months that have gone from benign to outright bizarre, including his admission that a parasitic worm ate part of his brain. To get ahead of his latest scandal, RFK, Jr. posted a three-minute video to his social media to explain the controversy. 

In the video, Kennedy can be seen sitting at his kitchen table, speaking with comedian Roseanne Barr as he attempted to explain the story from his perspective. According to Kennedy, he was taking a group of people falconing in upstate New York when he came across a dead bear hit by the vehicle in front of him. 

"So I pulled over, and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was gonna skin the bear," the independent candidate said. "It was in very good condition, and I was gonna put the meat in my refrigerator." RFK, Jr. then explained that he had the intention of skinning the bear after he secured a bear tag from New York authorities. That plan, however, was not followed through as Kennedy spent longer than expected falconing.

Pressed for time, the environmentalist traveled to Manhattan for dinner with friends with the carcass still in the back of his vehicle. After a lengthy dinner at the Peter Luger Steak House, Kennedy, who needed to go to the airport to catch a flight, realized that he still had the bear cub in his vehicle. "I had to go to the airport, and the bear was in my car, and I didn't want to leave the bear in the car because that would have been bad," he said, adding that he and a few of his drunk buddies that he had just enjoyed dinner with, had come up with a "redneck" idea.

RFK, Jr. explained that he had an old bike in his car and that there had recently been several accidents in the Big Apple after the city government installed bike lanes. Kennedy explained that he wanted to put the bear in Central Park to make it seem like a cyclist had hit and killed it. "I wasn't drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea," Kennedy assured Barr. "So we went and did that, and we thought it would be amusing for whoever found it or something."

The bear cub was found the next morning by a pedestrian walking their dog. Authorities quickly took the bear to Albany for an autopsy and confiscated the bike to analyze it for fingerprints. The mystery remained unsolved until Kennedy's video on Sunday revealed the truth. Kennedy posted the video with the caption, "Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one."

Watch RFK, Jr.'s confession below:

Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, @NewYorker… pic.twitter.com/G13taEGzba

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 4, 2024

Read The New Yorker article here.

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