RFK Jr. raised eyebrows with a story involving the mutilation of a dead raccoon in the name of science.

The bizarre tale was revealed in the new book “RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise,” which includes private journals he wrote between 1999 and 2001 while living in New York City.

“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,” the passage reads, according to the book authored by the New York Post’s Isabel Vincent.

RFK Jr. once chopped off a dead raccoon’s penis to ‘study later’ while on a family road trip https://t.co/emWhRErB8p pic.twitter.com/mSOcnSRIgd

— New York Post (@nypost) April 15, 2026

The HHS head was referring to his contentious relationships with his cousin Bobby Shriver and his brother Douglas Kennedy, the Post reported.

RFK Jr. said his kids were “waiting patiently in the car” at the time, as he collected the raccoon’s penis to “study” later.

The raccoon was far from the first story of dead animals involving RFK Jr. In 2024, the then-presidential candidate got ahead of a story and dropped the bombshell that he was responsible for planting a dead bear cub in New York ten years prior.

He claimed that a van had hit the bear before he decided to stage the scene, presumably as a joke.

In 2012, his daughter, Kick Kennedy, told Town & Country Magazine that RFK Jr. once strapped a washed-up whale’s head to the top of their minivan while on vacation.

“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” she said at the time.

“We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”

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