LOS ANGELES – Ken Johnson, 63, just got a new roommate last week — a black bear living in the crawl space under his home in Southern California.

The bear was seen on video footage clambering out from beneath his house Tuesday. He had installed a camera near the space back in June when he saw what looked like damage caused by an animal.

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Nothing showed up on the camera until last week. And now he's trying to figure out how to make it leave.

“It's a huge bear,” Johnson said, describing it as tall as a table and bigger than the trash bins in front of his house. “It's really unnerving because I don't know if he's going to tear everything up under there, I don't know how to get him out."

Johnson lives in Altadena, an unincorporated community northeast of Los Angeles that

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