{"id":404963,"date":"2026-01-13T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/404963\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:56:08","slug":"another-altadena-homeowner-finds-unwelcome-bear-roommate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/404963\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Altadena homeowner finds unwelcome bear roommate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another unlucky LA County homeowner is living just with the bear necessities after a massive bruin took up residence under their home.<\/p>\n<p>The beast has taken up residence at a different house in Altadena just a week after a 550-lb. black bear was forcibly rousted from his perch under a nearby home, where it had lived for 37 days.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the big bruin hiding under the house was given <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/bear-takes-up-under-another-los-angeles-county-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">to KTLA by the homeowner <\/a>who wished to remain anonymous according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38166442\" width=\"440\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/another-giant-bear-moved-home-118807050.jpg\" alt=\"A bear is seen under a home in Altadena.\" class=\"wp-image-38166442\" style=\"width:461px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:0.74609375;display:block\"  \/>This beast moved in just a week after a bear was evacuated from another Altadena home. KTLA<\/p>\n<p>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife said it\u2019s investigating that video to determine whether the second incident involves the previous bear \u2014 tagged \u201cYellow 2120\u201d \u2014 or if it\u2019s a new bruin.<\/p>\n<p>Altadena resident Ken Johnson\u2019s life was turned upside down by the bear that holed up in his crawl space just after Thanksgiving last November.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe California Post is coming soon. Sign up for updates.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet in early. Be the first to know about launch and home delivery.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The creature kept him up at night, ruined Christmas, and caused heavy damage to his home.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s furry housemate finally left last Thursday after a brigade of paintballers from the resort area of Lake Tahoe, California called \u201cThe Bear League\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/08\/us-news\/bear-living-under-mans-california-home-finally-leaves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pelted at him with greasy projectiles <\/a>filled with vegetable oil \u2014 a tactic used frequently by the group.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said he suspects the bear report in the new home is really his former housemate, and that it simply found a new place to camp.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78086957;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38166437\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/altadena-homeowner-ken-johnson-living-118523923_3d5617.jpg\" alt=\"A brown bear lying in a crawl space under a house with a gas meter and blue tarp nearby.\" class=\"wp-image-38166437\"  \/>Ken Johnson lived with a 550-lb. bear under his home for 37 days. Ken J. Johnson<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s the same one, I saw him run off that way.\u201d Johnson told The Post. He said the new home appears to be in the direction where \u201cYellow 2120\u201d was headed.<\/p>\n<p>The latest home is located just below the foothills of Altadena and borders the Angeles National Forest. The beasts often descend into the neighborhood foraging for food and looking for spots like crawlspaces to hunker down, according to the CDFW.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a popular place for bears,\u201d said CDFW spokesperson Cort Koppling.<\/p>\n<p>When the CDFW was trying to catch Jonson\u2019s bear with a metal trap filled with sardines and peanut butter, the contraption ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/19\/us-news\/los-angeles-bear-trap-catches-wrong-beast-in-altadena\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nabbing the wrong bear,<\/a> another wandering the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson told The Post he has some advice for the homeowners who have a new housemate, \u201cFirst, remain calm, get an air horn in case it comes at you, and get in touch with the Bear League, they know what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another unlucky LA County homeowner is living just with the bear necessities after a massive bruin took up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,19122,2356,3031,79,194,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-404963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-us-news","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}