Kevin Bacon is a longtime Upper West Side resident, a great actor and a dog-lover, in that order.
In a recent interview with the Guardian, he was asked a slightly bizarre question that led to an equally bizarre answer. Anyway, we thought we’d share it with you.
What’s the weirdest thing you ever found in the woods?
Hmm. You know, it’s not exactly the woods, but that just makes it even weirder. I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side. I was out there walking my dog one night, and the dog started sniffing around in a bush. So I went over there and I found a severed pig’s head. I don’t know if it was some kind of … I don’t know what it was.I just grabbed the dog and ran. It was pretty weird. It was fresh.
Read the whole interview here.
And let us know if you’ve ever found anything equally bizarre in one of our parks.
Film still from “Tremors”.
former uws resident, according to the Bacon quote. Your opening line is misleading.
Last we checked he still lives here, just not on Riverside Park. Hope he didn’t move! WSR
He still lives on the UWS. 82nd Street, I believe.
CPW in upper 80s for many years.
Bacon found a Pig – How irronic
Makes you think it was a joke.
He was a busboy in a restaurant on W74th and Columbus in 1977.
I thought he worked at Lone Star on West 72nd
He worked at the now defunct All State Cafe on 72nd between WEA and Broadway in the mid 1970s.
He may have done that too. This restaurant was called Cafe Europa. The bartender was named Jason Berge and he is now the star of Chicago PD on NBC. One of the waitresses hit it big too.
Cafe Europea
No, his brother lives on 82nd. He lives further up (low 90s?) on CPW.
I found a dead, headless chicken early one morning by the 93rd St entrance to the Park, once. Likely part of a Santaria ritual.
I go to the park every day to feed the birds and squirrels, and when the weather is nice, I put my feet up and read as well. One Thanksgiving I was in Central Park. It had rained so the ground was cold and moist, but the air was warm and this combo caused a heavy fog. I thought at the time it would not surprise me to see Christopher Lee in a cape striding through the fog. Well, what I actually saw was miniature horses. I thought I was having an hallucination. These horses were hardly as high as my knee and they appeared out of the fog running around. It turns out it was a troop of miniature horses who were going to appear in the Macy’s parade; they were being exercised in the park before the event.
I recall walking through Central Park maybe 10 years ago during the late morning on a really foggy day. The park seemed completely deserted. I walked up west drive and somewhere in the 70s/80s I looked over at a bench and there appeared to be a lobster (or big crawfish) just sitting there….little further up and there was one on the pedestrian path…..
I am pretty certain I was conscious and sober.
I also saw a crayfish/lobster in Central Park on the path around “The Pool” (aka a “lake” at West 101-103 Sts). just inside the park. Sorry cannot figure out how to attach the photo to this message.
Just a pig’s head? We had a dead bear discovered in Central Park not long ago: https://www.westsiderag.com/2014/10/06/dead-bear-cub-found-in-central-park-near-west-69th-street
I found Kevin Bacon in the park once.
*wins*