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. \u201cI don\u2019t know how it got under there. It must be a contortionist,\u201d Johnson told the Los Angeles Times. \u201cThis thing is so big its stomach touches the ground.\u201d 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. \u201cIt\u2019s uncomfortable walking into the kitchen thinking there\u2019s a bear over there,\u201d said Johnson, who became terrified by the bear after it roared at him last week. \u201cI was shaking like a leaf for half an hour,\u201d 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, \u201cand it hasn\u2019t left since.\u201d He is awaiting guidance from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, as they return to work following Thanksgiving weekend.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n