{"id":77057,"date":"2025-12-01T19:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/77057\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:12:18","slug":"500-pound-bear-squeezes-into-california-homes-crawl-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/77057\/","title":{"rendered":"500-Pound Bear Squeezes Into California Home&#8217;s Crawl Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Southern California resident received an unexpected surprise last week when he discovered a 500-pound bear living beneath his home, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/bear-takes-up-residence-under-altadena-home-startles-homeowner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:local reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">local reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ken Johnson first became suspicious after <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/bear-takes-up-residence-under-altadena-home-startles-homeowner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:noticing;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">noticing<\/a> items around his Altadena property knocked over or damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He set up surveillance cameras, and the footage soon revealed a massive bear squeezing into the crawl space under his house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt was really big. I\u2019ve seen him before, but he was going through the trash and then the next morning he\u2019s coming out from underneath my house,\u201d Johnson told KTLA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/altadena-bear-crawlspace\/3809935\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> he had seen the bear every day since. The situation escalated on Friday when he attempted to change the camera batteries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI went around to put batteries in the camera, and this huge growl comes from under the crawl space and I just went running,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/altadena-bear-crawlspace\/3809935\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBC LA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NBC LA<\/a>. \u201cI mean, it was the most amazing roar you\u2019ve ever heard. Like a lion with a hiss on top of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Johnson told Storyful he had filled out a form for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and law enforcement advised him to stay indoors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As of Monday, December 1, the bear was still squatting underneath his home. Credit: Ken Johnson via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Southern California resident received an unexpected surprise last week when he discovered a 500-pound bear living beneath&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,44431],"class_list":{"0":"post-77057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-ken-johnson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}