2018 | The Underground Bunker

When Scientology tried to convince the FBI that a college prof ran a cabal of critics

[Dave Touretzky, right, at HowdyCon 2016, with Bunker denizen $cientologyMonkeyNut$]

Over the last several months, we’ve been posting numerous FBI documents about Scientology that have been pried loose by journalist Emma Best as part of a lawsuit. She’s been kind enough to give us a crack at many of the items as they’ve come available, and […]

Scientology’s ‘scripture’ includes a thoroughly debunked mammoth-meat hoax

David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology are doing their ecclesiastical best to play up the “religion” thing as much as possible these days. As their organization shrinks and comes under heavy fire from the media, they hold up their holy double-cross and proclaim that they are the victims of religious […]

Xenu or Xemu? Here’s our take on one of Scientology’s galactic-wide mysteries

We get asked a certain question on occasion, and since we get tired of answering it each time, we thought we’d put together this post so we can direct people here in the […]

‘It was my job to get Mike Rinder’s trash’ — A former Scientology spy begins to spill her guts

[Mike Rinder and Christie Collbran]

Yesterday, former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder posted a chilling account by his wife Christie Collbran about a Scientology spy who worked to become a part of their […]

Joy Villa’s ex talks about her domestic violence arrest and the child she put up for adoption

Cory Duncan first contacted us several months ago when he saw our articles about his ex-girlfriend Joy Villa, and how the Scientology “celebrity” was skyrocketing to fame because she’d worn a “Trump” dress at the Grammy Awards last […]

When two political longshots spar over Joy Villa and Scientology, everyone wins

[Edwin Duterte]

Rod Keller has a fun look for us inside the madcap attempt to unseat longtime Democratic incumbent Maxine Waters in Los […]

Scientology actress Jenna Elfman fully stoked by church’s new expansion push!

We’re still getting some interesting bits and pieces out of Scientology’s recent New Year’s event and the claims made by church leader David Miscavige. During the event filmed on December 16 in Los Angeles but shown in the rest of Scientology’s facilities on December 31 Miscavige made the announcement that Mexico had recognized Scientology as […]

Court magician? Scientology attorney can now affect matter with thought, levitate, read minds

Your proprietor is under the weather, but before the cats quarantine us in the Bunker’s airlock, we wanted to make a brief note about a remarkable photograph that was sent to us by one of our great […]

Even in 2018, Scientology is still selling L. Ron Hubbard like he had the universe figured out

It’s true that church leader David Miscavige has made a lot of changes to Scientology over the 30-plus years that he’s been in charge. But some things never change. We were struck by that thought when one of our helpers sent over the latest copy of Source magazine, which is intended to get Scientologists excited […]

Conan O’Brien to Danny Masterson in ’04, after rape claim was settled: ‘I’ve heard about you’

Oh my, what a gem one of our tipsters dug up for us today. It’s video from a December 2004 appearance by Danny Masterson, who was then playing “Hyde” on That ’70s Show, on Conan O’Brien’s late night talk show, and they got into some randy […]

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