ALTADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- An Altadena man got a big surprise last week when he found a 500-pound bear living underneath his home. Now, the homeowner is facing a serious problem because the stubborn animal won't leave!

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 had made his narrow crawl space a den for the winter.

"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

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