A family in California had noticed "some odd rumbling, snoring-like noises" in their Lake Tahoe house throughout the winter, and thought they were going crazy until last week when a family of bears woke them up.
In a Facebook post by the Bear League, a non-profit organization, they explained the situation where a mother bear and four cubs hibernated in a crawlspace under the home for the winter.
"When it came time to go to sleep for the winter she found a house with an unsecured crawl space opening and ushered all the kids inside and told them to Be Quiet and Go to Sleep," the Bear League said in the Facebook post.
"It was a home where people lived and they thought they heard some odd rumbling, snoring-like noises but ignored it because it simply didn't make sense...and the neighbors said they were imagining it because they didn't hear anything."
The family had called the Bear League to come and help remove the bears from the crawlspace. The mother bear and her three cubs, plus an adopted cub, had snuck under the house and stayed there for months.
"Today the bear family awoke and prepared to exit and the people in the house could no longer deny there was probably a bear under the house," the post added. "So they called the BEAR League and we arrived immediately. We un-invited Mama Bear, not yet aware there were four more bears under the house."
The mother bear could be seen in the picture on Facebook hiding behind a tree.
The Bear League went on to say that seeing the four cubs emerge from the crawlspace was a special scene, and noted that the bear family had been spotted last year when the cubs were just nine months old.
"It was quite the scene to then watch the four yearling cubs emerge from the opening and join together on the other side of the fence to venture forth into 2022," the organization said in the Facebook post.
The Bear League hopes for the best for the bear family as they embark on the rest of the year without a real roof over their head.
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