THERE’S A BEAR IN THERE

Homeowner Stunned to Find Massive Bear Secretly Living in His Home

The enormous bear has been sharing a living space with homeowner Kenneth Johnson since April.

A California homeowner was shocked to find a huge brown bear in the crawl space underneath his Altedena home earlier this year. Kenneth Johnson, 63, first noticed something was amiss back in April, when the bricks and wooden frame blocking his crawl space were damaged by a mysterious culprit. After buying a security camera in June to monitor the area, the intruder was finally revealed last week to be a lumbering bear with a tag on its left ear, who enters and leaves the crawl space every day after hunting for food. “I don’t know how it got under there. It must be a contortionist,” Johnson told the Los Angeles Times. “This thing is so big its stomach touches the ground.” Security footage captured on Friday shows the bear struggling to navigate the tight space, pulling itself out of the crawl space using its front paws before heading off to find food. “It’s uncomfortable walking into the kitchen thinking there’s a bear over there,” said Johnson, who became terrified by the bear after it roared at him last week. “I was shaking like a leaf for half an hour,” he added, and said his cat, Boo, was similarly spooked. Johnson said he last saw the bear enter the crawl space at 6 a.m. on Saturday, “and it hasn’t left since.” He is awaiting guidance from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, as they return to work following Thanksgiving weekend.