Logan Paul Lists Timothy Leary's Old LSD Ranch for Nearly $3 Million

Logan Paul has put his sprawling Mountain Center property back on the market for just under $3 million, roughly three times what he paid for it in 2019 — and the listing leans hard into the land's strange past as a onetime hippie commune raided by federal agents in 1972. The 78-acre spread, now rebranded Fobes Ranch, sits deep in the San Jacinto Mountains and was once the stomping ground of Timothy Leary, the ex-Harvard professor and LSD advocate famously described as the most dangerous man in America.

According to the New York Post, Paul purchased the property in 2019 for $1 million, a figure that itself carries a bit of internet-famous mythology. As the Los Angeles Times reported at the time, Paul actually paid $1,000,001 — tacking an extra dollar onto his bid as a joke that the sellers found amusing enough to accept, on a property that had originally been listed for $1.495 million, though sources differ on when that listing occurred. The main residence had been listed as a two-bedroom home with 1.5 bathrooms in 2019 before renovations changed it to four bedrooms, and the property includes a 70,000-gallon water storage tank fed by natural mountain springs.

A Compound Built for Total Isolation

The ranch is registered to a trust named for Logan and his brother Jake Paul, the Post notes, and the brothers made upgrades to the property after acquiring it. Reaching it requires a secluded four-mile drive off Highway 74, and the compound is surrounded by the San Bernardino National Forest with no other residences along its access road. It sits about 25 minutes from Idyllwild by car and roughly an hour from Palm Springs airport. According to the U.S. Forest Service, the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument is managed by the San Bernardino National Forest, the San Jacinto Ranger District, the Bureau of Land Management and the Agua Caliente.

Off the grid is the operative phrase here. The property runs on solar power with battery storage, a propane backup tank, and a gravity-fed water system, per the Post's reporting. A separate 500-square-foot caretaker guesthouse known as the Cabbage House rounds out the compound, built with pine cathedral ceilings, a sleeping loft, solar-generated electricity, and a Vermont soapstone wood stove, according to Newswire. Beyond that, the grounds include a caretaker's home, bunkhouse, horse barn, greenhouse, gymnasium, garages, sheds, a 300-yard shooting range, a seasonally full pond, and miles of four-wheel-drive trails.

The Ranch's Hippie Mafia Past

Long before Paul's tenure, the land served as a headquarters for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a group that occupied the ranch with Leary and preached that regular LSD use would create a more sensitive human race, the Post reports. The Brotherhood traced its origins to 1966, when Anaheim resident John Griggs and fellow members of the Street Sweepers robbed a man of LSD at gunpoint, according to the Los Angeles Times; after taking LSD, Griggs underwent a dramatic change, and the Brotherhood was later formed. The group later registered as a tax-exempt religious organization in California, opposed the Vietnam War, and ran vegetarian soup kitchens even as it built what Rolling Stone dubbed the Hippie Mafia — an international smuggling operation that introduced Afghan hashish to the U.S. and developed the marijuana strain Maui Wowie.

Federal agents raided the compound in 1972, reportedly finding Leary manufacturing the LSD strain Orange Sunshine under a teepee, the Post reports. A few years before that raid, in 1969, Brotherhood leader John Griggs, 26, died of a drug overdose, according to the Reason Magazine. The Brotherhood, at its height, counted around 30 members, and its counterculture reputation drew wider pop-culture attention — British rock group The Moody Blues visited during the era, and their experiences there reportedly inspired the 1968 song “Legend of the Mind” from the album In Search of the Lost Chord, per Newswire. Leary himself is remembered for coining the phrase “turn on, tune in, drop out.”

Paul's Ghost Stories and His Move to Puerto Rico

Paul apparently didn't treat the ranch as a working operation. He described the property as “severely haunted,” citing unexplained blaring car horns and heavy metal doors clanging at night. The Post reports Paul did not use the property as a working ranch, though the land remains suited for level acreage cattle grazing and could support one for a future owner.

Paul has since relocated toward Puerto Rico, a shift underway since 2021. He said he fell in love with the island after scouting it, and cited boxing training camps and favorable taxes among his reasons for the move, per the Post. Paul described the relocation as the closing of one chapter and the opening of another. He is offering most of the furnishings, ranch vehicles, and equipment along with the property, which listing agent Bill Church described as a truly extraordinary piece of California mountain history and an off-grid retreat.

The ranch is listed for $2,999,500 through So Cal Coast Real Estate, more than double its original asking price of $1.495 million.