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SUPER POWER UPDATE: Scientology Has Even More Excuses Not to Open Its Boondoggle

A year ago, we made public hundreds of schematics showing plans for Scientology’s “Flag Mecca,” known colloquially as the “Super Power” building. The city-block-sized, 300,000-square-foot monstrosity across the street from the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida first broke ground in 1998, and even after the church was forced to pay $413,500 in penalties to []

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Tom Cruise Under Oath: We Have His Deposition Questions!

Last week, we learned that Tom Cruise is playing hardball in his $50 million defamation lawsuit against Bauer Media, publishers of In Touch and Life & Style. Cruise sued after the magazines said he’d “abandoned” his daughter Suri following his split with Katie Holmes last summer. Cruise has indicated that he’ll use depositions and document []

Sunday Funnies: The Grant Cardone Is An Asshat Special Edition!

On Sundays, we love to bring you all the best that Scientology has to offer. The fliers and mailers and announcements about its good works around the globe.

It’s become a highlight of the week here at the Bunker, and we hope you enjoy this week’s offerings, which are brought to us by our tipsters []

Scientology Mythbusting with Jon Atack: And With Help From Harlan Ellison!

In 1990, author Jon Atack published what is still one of the very best books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, A Piece of Blue Sky. Atack now has a new edition of the book out, and it reminded us what an encyclopedic resource he is. So we had an idea. In the world of []

Blogging Dianetics, Part 7: The Hard Cell

Welcome to our ongoing project, where we blog a 1950 first edition of Scientology’s bible, Dianetics, with the help of ex-Scientologist, Bay Area lawyer, blogger, and author Vance Woodward. Go here for the first post in the series.

In the last chapter, Hubbard made his big reveal, explaining that he had done what mankind had been []

Epic Fireball Over Russia

Our thanks to Phil Plait, who alerted us to this on Twitter. Several amazing videos are coming in from the Ural Mountains region of Russia, where a meteor provided an incredible show about an hour ago (midnight Eastern time), near the city of Chelyabinsk.

Plait (of Bad Astronomer fame) guesses that this object is unrelated to []

Scientology’s Spiffy Golden Era Studios Has Its Own Dentist!

Ever since Debbie Cook rocked Scientology with her infamous New Year’s Eve e-mail last year, Scientology leader David Miscavige has been on a major campaign to disprove one of her complaints — that he’s not spending money to burnish the church’s image.

Cook, a longtime, somewhat legendary employee of Scientology’s “Sea Org,” shocked her fellow church []

Underground Bunker Reader Gets Declared a Suppressive Person by Scientology

We’re bursting with pride here in the Underground Bunker for Dee Findlay, a reader who first made contact with us about a year ago.

At that point, she had just decided to come out of Scientology, and had discovered the Voice blog almost right away. She became a frequent reader and commenter, and also communicated with []

Scientology Does Star Wars: That’s No Moon, It’s a Fundraiser!

Oops! We plum forgot that we’d scheduled this video for this morning. Things have been a bit crazy around the Bunker lately, and we did imbibe a bit last night, joining in to “wet the head” of our newest reader, Grayson Headley. (And so did Jonny Jacobsen — check out the photos we added this []

PLEASE WELCOME OUR NEWEST READER!

The Underground Bunker is pleased to announce the birth of Grayson Pierce Headley, who entered the world at 10:50 this morning at 8 pounds, 15.9 ounces.

This makes three boys for Marc and Claire Headley, who were finally able to start a family after they left Scientology’s Sea Org in 2005.

Marc assures us it was []