An elderly California woman who thought the noises coming from under her house were from animals was shocked to find a naked man living there.
A 93-year-old woman from the district El Sereno of Los Angeles recently got a huge shock when she realized that the strange noises she had been hearing under her house for the past few weeks they did not come from animals but from a man who had settled there
The woman and her family usually heard strange noises under the house during the night, so they assumed it was dogs or wild animals passing through the basement. Last Thursday, however, the noises got especially louder. They began to suspect something was wrong, so they called her policewho found a naked man who appeared to have been living under the house for some time.
“It was usually late at night and we attributed it to the animals under the house“, said Ricardo Silva, son-in-law of the elderly owner of the house, at NBC Los Angeles. “The noises were something like a thump. It was like, as my wife was walking, they were knocking from under the house, so she says, something’s wrong.”
Getting the unwanted visitor out from under the house was quite a task as he didn’t want to. The police spent hours trying to convince him and then tried to intimidate him with police dogs. In the end, they had to force him out with tear gas.
“He refused to leave. He wasn’t afraid of dogs, and the first two attempts with gasoline didn’t get him out“, she said Silva. “It’s a strange thing, but it’s probably not unusual, you know, in this day and age, people seek shelter».
The naked man was identified as the 27-year-old Isaac Betancourt and is suspected of living under his house El Sereno in the last six months. The family now plans to block access to the crawl space under the house to prevent similar problems in the future.
