Joe Rogan said he previously came across the property where JonBenet Ramsey was found dead, saying it was on the market when he was looking for a new home in Boulder.
JonBenet, 6, was found dead by murder in the basement of her home in Boulder, Colorado, on December 26, 1996. Her killer still has not been identified.
As media fascination grew around the case of the murdered child pageant star, police attention quickly turned to John and Patsy Ramsey as potential suspects. They were eventually charged with child abuse resulting in death and accessory to JonBenet’s murder in 1999, but those charges were eventually dropped due to a lack of evidence.
During an episode of his show The Joe Rogan Experience with guest John McPhee, a retired U.S. Army Special Operations Sergeant Major, the two men discussed negative energy and how you can sometimes tell when something bad has happened in a space. The podcast host then revealed that when he lived in Boulder, he came across the house the Ramsey family used to live in on Zillow, a real estate website.
Newsweek emailed a spokesperson for Rogan for comment on Monday.
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“I think places have memory, I really believe that … I think that’s one of the reasons why when someone gets murdered in a house they have to tell you about it. They have to because, like, people, they know,” Rogan said.
“Like, there was JonBenet Ramsey’s house when I lived in Boulder. I lived in Boulder for a while, we were looking at houses to buy and there was this one house, it was, like, really cheap for the house. I was like, ‘This is a nice f****** house.’
“They had changed the name of the street so they could try to sell this house because everybody knew that it was the house that JonBenet Ramsey had been killed in. They couldn’t f****** sell the house.”
Both McPhee and Rogan said “f*** the house,” before the host added: “We were looking at the house on, like, Zillow. We’re like, ‘Oh that’s a beautiful house maybe we should go check out this house.
“And then we found out, we’re like, ‘Oh that’s why they can’t sell it.’ Like, ‘Oh man,’ like they changed the name of the street to try to sell this house.”
McPhee said the situation was “f***** up” and suggested that they should have “just bulldozed” the home.
While Rogan agreed, he asked: “And then what do you do about the ground? It’s still there. Would you want to live in a place where they bulldoze the house where a little girl are getting kill—f*** that.”
“Not even joking about it, I don’t want to live there,” McPhee responded.
Rogan added: “No one wants to live there, I don’t even know what it is now, I mean, I don’t know if anybody ever bought it.”
JonBenet was found dead at the Boulder residence with duct tape on her mouth and a nylon cord around her wrists and neck. An autopsy report found that she was killed by strangulation and a skull fracture.
The Ramseys left the property soon after the murder and it was later sold to an investor group for $650,000. The proceeds went to the JonBenet Ramsey Children’s Foundation.
According to the New York Post, the current owners took the property off the market earlier this year, making it the sixth time the home had been up for sale. Unfortunately, they were unable to find a buyer after it had been listed for sale for over a year. This was despite undergoing extensive renovations in hopes it would entice prospective buyers.
The property was advertised on March 1, 2,023 for $6.95 million. Despite a considerable price reduction to $6.24 million seven months later, the house remained unsold. Then in March 2024, it was pulled off the market.
“The market perceives anything dealing with children who have been injured, abused, or murdered as the most heinous condition. It has a dramatic effect on property values,” Orell Anderson, a forensics real estate appraiser told Realtor. He also worked on assessing the Colorado property after the murder.
