The story about the dead bear cub that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. left in Central Park in 2014 had yet another twist to it on Monday — and it involves CNN anchor and apparent soothsayer John Berman. Now this story really has everything.

The story of a dead black bear cub being found in Central Park a decade ago was odd even at the time. Bears generally didn’t hang out in Central Park, for one thing. For another, the baby bear was found next to a bicycle. Was the bear hit by a cyclist? Where did the bear come from?

Ten years later, in a profile of the presidential candidate in The New Yorker published on Monday, the truth came out — it was he who left the bear there. He staged the bicycle accident after posing for a photo with the dead baby bear. It’s a Whole Story involving falconry, and Kennedy told it to Roseanne Barr in a video he posted to Twitter/X. That is a real sentence and all those words are facts.

But back to 2014, when Berman — then a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed CNN staffer at the tender age of “ten-years-younger” — reported on the mysterious baby bear carcass and editorialized:

There have been no bears in the park for a long, long time. It seems as if someone brought the thing there, which is really sad.

Boasting the chyron “MYSTERY SOLVED,” the present-day Berman asked of his guests: “[I]s the lesson here that you need to listen to me because ultimately, ten years hence, I will be proven correct?”

Jason Osborne, a former communications strategist for Ben Carson, told Berman:

Osborne: [O]ne thing that I found that was interesting was he did come up with an explanation of where he thinks he got the brain worm from. So at least we have a solution to that problem. So in a sense, now we know what happened with the bear, who did it, and where the brain worm came from. So, I’m happy about that.

Berman: And I think the upside of this is maybe now we never have to speak of this again.

Anchor Sara Sidner punctuated the segment with: “One thing to note on this show — John Berman is always right.”

Watch the video above via CNN.

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