ALTADENA, Calif. -- A Southern California 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 Altadena house.

"In June, I walked by there and noticed the crawl space had all been torn up," Johnson told ABC7 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. "

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