Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign recently took an unexpected turn when the candidate admitted that he once dumped a dead bear in New York's Central Park. 

According to Fox News, Kennedy could be seen making the bizarre admission in a video clip posted to social media this past weekend.

Kennedy saw bear get hit by a motorist

Kennedy began by telling comedian Roseanne Barr about a trip he took to Goshen, New York when a woman who was driving in front of him hit and killed a young bear.

"So, I pulled over and picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear… and put the meat in my refrigerator," Kennedy explained.

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However, Kennedy ended up going for a late dinner in New York City and then said he had to head to the airport. "I didn’t want to leave the bear in my car because that would have been bad," Kennedy stated.

"So, everybody thought, 'That's a great idea'"

Kennedy then decided that he would leave the bear in Central Park under an old bicycle he had in his vehicle in order to make it seem as though the animal had been struck by a cyclist.

"So, everybody thought, 'That’s a great idea.' So, we went and did that," he continued before adding, "And we thought it would be amusing for whoever found it."

"It was on every television station. It was on the front page of every paper," the independent presidential candidate recalled.

"I turned on the TV and there was a mile of yellow tape. And there were 20 cop cars. There were helicopters flying over it. And I was like, ‘Oh my God. What did I do?'"

Kennedy's cousin unwittingly reported on story

Kennedy's bear prank did indeed result in headlines, as the New York Post reported in October of 2014 that a bear carcass was discovered at the foot of a Civil War monument.

"I thought it was a raccoon," 79-year-old Florence Slatkin was quoted as saying. "When I looked closer, it wasn’t moving . . . but my friend thought it was a bear."

Meanwhile, the Post noted that former New York Times reporter Tatiana Schlossberg is a cousin of Kennedy and she wrote a story about the bear mystery a decade ago.

"Like law enforcement, I had no idea who was responsible for this when I wrote the story,” Schlossberg, who was an intern at the time," Schlossberg was quoted as saying in a statement released by the Times.