This is bound to be the most bizarre story you will read the entire week.
A new report by the New York Post claims Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cut off the penis of a dead raccoon on the side of the road in order to study it.
The claim was reportedly written by RFK Jr. in a diary entry.
Read the New York Post’s exclusive report here:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an avid animal genitalia researcher in his spare time, once pulled the family sedan to the side of the road after spying a dead raccoon and swiftly cut off its sex organs so he could “study them later.”
The bizarre account by the nation’s top civilian health official was unearthed in the new book “RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise,” authored by The Post’s own Isabel Vincent, who drew upon a wide range of sources including private journals he penned while living in New York City between 1999 and 2001.
“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be,” reads a surreal passage in which the Health and Human Services head, 72, was reportedly lamenting his rocky relationships with his brother Douglas Kennedy and cousin Bobby Shriver.
“My kids waited patiently in the car,” he noted, later telling People magazine he collected the raccoon’s genitals so he could “study them later.”
The eccentric Kennedy scion’s bizarre recollection adds to the laundry list of grisly encounters with animal parts he’s had over the years.
Here’s how social media reacted:
RFK Jr. Cut Penis off Raccoon per TMZhttps://t.co/jZlx1T694I pic.twitter.com/1YcJwkiauT
— Politics On 𝕏 (@PoliticsOnX) April 16, 2026
The raccoon watching RFK Jr. cut off his friend’s penis. pic.twitter.com/ATSkg96KJx
— DNP Sports (@notthefakeDNP) April 16, 2026
That’s not RFK Jr.’s only bizarre animal story.
Listen to him share a story with Roseanne Barr about the time he dumped a dead bear in Central Park:
RFK Jr. once cut off dead raccoon’s PENIS to 'study later'
'I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting penis out of a road killed raccoon' — from new biography RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise pic.twitter.com/qh3MpuHNLU
— RT (@RT_com) April 15, 2026
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