ALTADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- An Altadena man got a big surprise last week when he found a 500-pound bear living underneath his home.

Ken Johnson, a local product photographer, said it all started last Tuesday when he took a look at one of his surveillance cameras and noticed a bear in the crawl space under his house.

"In June, I walked by there and noticed [ the crawl space ] had all been torn up," Johnson told Eyewitness News on Monday. "The bricks had been pulled out, the frame had been ripped up apart, so I put a camera there to see what was doing it."

He said he had seen a YouTube video of another Altadena resident who had a bear living in its crawl space, so he started to wonder.

"It looked just like my crawl space, so I thought, 'There's possibly a way,'" he said. "Next thin

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