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One of Scientology’s most secretive temples is offering a rare look inside on Monday

Scientology may be shrinking, and it may be having a harder time finding new celebrity members, but there’s one thing that the church is still the undisputed champion […]

Ah, the reveries of 1950: When Dianetics was in full bloom

Tuesday will mark 67 years since L. Ron Hubbard published the book that would start a movement, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. For that reason, May 9 — Dianetics Day — is one of the most important dates on the Scientology calendar. Jeffrey Augustine is helping us mark this anniversary by looking back […]

Professor Hugh Urban takes us to task for our review of his Scientology OT 8 investigation

[Professor Hugh B. Urban of the Ohio State University]

On Friday, we expressed our disappointment with Ohio State University professor Hugh Urban’s newest paper, this time about Scientology’s original OT 8 material, which we have also written about. We titled the piece “With Scientology at war in Clearwater, religious studies types still seeking its warm & […]

With Scientology at war in Clearwater, religious studies types still seeking its warm & fuzzy side

[Some ordinary Scientologists]

With all of the amazing news happening lately, Scientology’s true nature is finally getting through to the larger public: The church has the knives out in Clearwater, Leah Remini is laying Scientology’s abuses bare on television, and so many other things are exposed here at the Underground Bunker every day. So you’d be […]

Bunker reader Dee Findlay stole the show as Clearwater stood up to Scientology last night

By now you’ve probably heard that the city of Clearwater is the proud owner of a 1.4-acre parcel of downtown land after its city council voted unanimously to purchase it from an aquarium company and defy the Church of Scientology, which wanted the plot for its own […]

DOX: Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s nutty scheme to strong-arm America’s psychologists

Wow, what a couple of days of reporting we’ve had. Big stuff is coming, but for now we have to keep a lid on it. In the meantime, our old friend Mark “Warrior” Plummer sent over a couple of nice items we thought you’d want to […]

You tell us: What’s the current condition of the Church of Scientology?

For this Saturday morning, we’re going to take things easy and let you do the […]

Lawrence Wright goes to Nazareth; or, how Reza Aslan drove us into the arms of L. Ron Hubbard

[Lawrence Wright, getting the scoop. (Illo by Observer)]

Yesterday, we were still thinking about Reza Aslan’s friendly-but-not-so-friendly jabs at Alex Gibney and Lawrence Wright in his Sunday night Believer episode about Scientology. […]

Understanding Marty Rathbun: For the first time, his full deposition of 2014

On Tuesday, we examined the complete history of Mark “Marty” Rathbun’s website, “Moving On Up a Little Higher,” looking for some clues for what led the former top Church of Scientology official to go from one of church leader David Miscavige’s most vocal and effective critics to give up that role so […]

Sheriff’s deputy on what Scientology does behind its gates: “That’s not my business”

Perhaps the number one question we get from people who are new to our website or on Twitter is, with all of the evidence and history of Scientology abuses over so many years, why doesn’t law enforcement do something about it? […]

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