Grandma found a naked man in the basement making “strange sounds” (3 photos + 1 video)
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23 November 2024
The family of a 93-year-old American woman lived next to a stranger for six months, who secretly lived in their basement. The man had to crawl through tunnels 60 cm high. 
An unknown young man settled in the basement of his grandmother and her family, and disturbed the family with strange sounds from the basement and walls. Eventually, the man was found and arrested. The police used service dogs and tear gas to detain him, and for some reason, the suspect was naked during the arrest. The NBC News channel reported on the adventure with the naked man in the grandmother's house.
The first report about a stranger who was found in a stranger's house appeared on the channel's portal on November 8. As it turned out, the 93-year-old grandmother and her daughter and son-in-law lived together in the El Sereno area of Los Angeles. One day, the family began to hear strange sounds in the walls and in the basement of the house. Usually this happened in the evening and at night, so it was believed that these were probably animals.
Strange sounds were heard for several weeks, and finally, late in the evening on November 7, the rustling turned into loud bangs. The family called the police: law enforcement officers found a naked man hiding in the basement. There is no footage of the arrest or a photo of the subject that would confirm that he was really naked. However, the journalists released a story titled "Police arrest naked man who lived in empty space under house in El Sereno."
"It was usually late at night, and we just assumed it was animals that were under the house. The noises were like knocking. My wife said, 'You know something's wrong,'" the 93-year-old grandmother's son-in-law was quoted as saying by journalists.
The police tried to pull the stranger out, the report says. At first, they sent in service dogs, but he "wasn't scared" and they couldn't pull him out. Then they used tear gas and only after that did the man crawl out of the basement. The man's name was Issac Betancourt, 27, police later reported. How and why he ended up under the house has not yet been explained: Issac arrested, investigation underway.
Meanwhile, it turned out that the space in which the man could have lived was only 2 feet high (about 60 cm). The passage of this height ran under the house and had three entrances. In the report, you can see a modest one-story house in which the stranger settled, and an opening in one of the walls: it is so small that it is not clear how anyone could have crawled through it. According to the family's estimates, the unknown person could have spent about six months there.
