Crime & Safety
3 Bear Cubs Break Into Man's San Bernardino County Mountain Cabin
After hearing his little, old, hard-of-hearing dogs barking, Thomas Vander Wende woke up and went outside his cabin at Green Valley Lake.
September 15, 2026
A man had a close encounter with a trio of bears that broke into his cabin in the San Bernardino County mountains.
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After hearing his little, old hard-of-hearing dogs barking, Thomas Vander Wende woke up and went outside his cabin at Green Valley Lake. That's when he came face-to-face with a bear cub crawling down a tree in front of his cabin at Green Valley Lake and making wild, throaty moans.
"I saw a silhouette of a bear just above my head," he said. "I was bare butt too. So, I didn't want to hang around and talk to this bear."
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