Scientology 50 & 21 years ago today: The strange deaths of Susan Meister & Stacy Moxon

[The Apollo]

They are two of Scientology’s more notorious deaths, and both of which have been the source of speculation and controversy over the years. And both of them happen to fall on the same date.

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His son may rule moneyed Scientology, but Ron Miscavige needs help to pay for his own funeral

In 2012, Ron Miscavige made a clever and daring escape with his wife Becky Bigelow from Scientology’s secretive “Int Base,” where the two of them had been living as “Sea Org” workers.

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The celebrity Scientologists going out on a bit of a media blitz right now

[Minkoff and Kasem]

We’ve been hearing from some readers about this, so we thought we’d acknowledge it at the blog. If for no other reason, we wanted to make you aware of it so our tipsters and researchers can keep their eyes on it.

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Scientology miracles from its 1980s heyday: How do they compare to today?

On Sunday we brought you the latest ‘OT Phenomena’ from a new issue of Scientology’s magazine ‘Advance!’

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If you ever wondered what Suri Cruise might be like if she had never left Scientology

Going viral on social media is not new to Scientologist and professional ham hock Grant Cardone, who makes a living convincing rubes that he will turn them into millionaires if they sign up for all of his oversharing on various Internet platforms.

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Scientology’s OT powers have survived the pandemic: Here are the miracles to prove it!

It’s that time again! Our thanks to the reader who sent in the new ‘Advance!’ magazine with its beloved feature, ‘OT Phenomena.’ We can’t get enough of it and we know you can’t either.

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Finally, truth in Scientology advertising: What an ‘Ideal USA’ would really look like

Hype videos for Scientology fundraising is of course one of our favorite genres of human achievement.

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Goodbye to a Scientology watcher we will dearly miss: Molly Kell, 1960-2021

We’ve lost another treasured member of the Bunker.

This week we learned that Molly Kell, known as “Puget Buckeye” here in our comments section, died last Friday after her long battle with breast cancer.

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Private investigators stalking Leah Remini and Jennifer Lopez: The complete texts

[Leah Remini and Jennifer Lopez on the ‘Second Act’ set. Inset: Yanti ‘Mike’ Greene]

Over at The Daily Beast today we have another big story, and one that we originally started working on three years ago.

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Scientology has been desperate to produce results in Texas for a very long time

[Another failed rain dance for Austin?]

I was a Sea Org management executive for the western United States for about nine years, a veritable eternity to hold a single job in the Sea Org. In that capacity and later when doing other Sea Org jobs, I visited almost all of the Scientology churches west of the Mississippi. All of them except for Austin! And yet, the staff and Scientology public of Austin always held a special place in my heart and I thought I might explain why. Almost everything here is based on just my recall from memory as a former Sea Org member, so any errors in the reporting are on me.

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