2018 | The Underground Bunker

Visit to London Ideal Org shows that the Scientology bubble is still firmly in place

[Richard wants you to watch Scientology TV]

What a treat we have for you today. Over in London last night, the UK Auxiliary Unit of the Underground Bunker — our clever correspondents Pete Griffiths and Andrea Garner — were showing around Beth Pearson on a visit from the U.S. when they came by the Scientology Ideal […]

Scientology’s surprisingly weak attempt to turn Hurricane Florence into PR gold

Rod Keller is on top of Scientology’s attempts to cash in on Hurricane Florence and its continued plans for opening new Narconons around the […]

Sharp new memoir digs into Scientology’s toxic cruelty experienced by those who grow up in it

Nathan Rich has led one fucked-up life. There’s no escaping that conclusion after you read his unique autobiography that comes out on Tuesday, with the unusual title of Scythe […]

Jesse Prince, witness to Scientology’s ugliest behavior, spills it all in new book

About halfway through Jesse Prince’s book, The Expert Witness: My Life at the Top of Scientology, it suddenly dawned on us why we were enjoying it so much — this, we realized, was the book Marty Rathbun should have written years […]

How a Scientology-run business preyed on Silicon Valley icons in the name of ‘wellness’

Today we have a remarkable account from a woman who asked not to be named. We’re also not identifying by name the business she has written about. But considering stories we’ve done recently (and some in years previously), we feel that her narrative is very timely and provides a really stunning look inside a Scientologist-run […]

FLORIDA IS IDEAL: Scientology ushers in glorious new civilization in country’s wang

Florida’s utopian future is here now!

Our thanks to Rasha for sending us the new Scientology Source magazine, which contained a somewhat understated story noting a monumental advance for planet earth. It’s so historic, we’re surprised that the magazine didn’t make an even bigger fuss about it. The news? FLORIDA IS IDEAL, […]

A visit from a private investigator has us wondering if Scientology is behind it

[Rebecca Dobkin]

Jeffrey Augustine had an odd visitor last week, and we asked him to tell us about […]

A dispatch from the front: Protesting Scientology’s anti-psych quackery

There’s always been strong interest in Scientology’s controversies from concerned Canadians. We’ve written at length about some of them, and we’ve noticed an uptick in Canadian activism at Facebook in recent months. One of our longtime readers, M.C. Mayo, who goes by EmmaDaoust here at the Bunker, sent us an interesting dispatch from her adventures […]

By any means necessary: Scientology’s bizarre war against psychiatry

[Elena Cardone]

Rod Keller has a new look at one of Scientology’s most notorious couples, and one of its longest-running […]

New Scientology escape book ‘Perfectly Clear’ leaves some important questions unanswered

Michelle LeClair’s book Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love got a nice boost this week as it was featured on the cover of People magazine ahead of its September 11 publication date, and we expect it’s going to continue to get a major media push. But now that we’ve read […]

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