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Scientology celebrates the sheer competence of a superpower OT 8, and so will we

When someone reaches the pinnacle of Scientology achievement — completing the auditing level of Operating Thetan Level Eight — it’s really a big deal. This is someone who has dedicated years to the pursuit, has spent something like half a million to two million dollars to get there, has completed the level itself while aboard […]

Another Scientology ‘Chase Wave’ eyewitness drops by, and brings a check

We are still hearing from Scientologists (current and former) about an effort by the church, in the years between about 2015 and 2019, to saddle members with huge debts by deceptively opening new credit card accounts for them, and from Chase Bank in […]

Here’s proof that David Miscavige’s real estate approach to Scientology leadership pays

Back in 2014 we provided a jolt to Scientology watchers when we got a look at some actual figures representing the amount of money that Scientology is worth, and all […]

PI stalking Leah Remini for Scientology was unlicensed, it turns out

Last June we brought a big scoop to the Daily Beast: We’d got our hands on some remarkable text messages between private investigators stalking Leah Remini and Jennifer Lopez on behalf of the Church of […]

Scientology’s global conquest: Founder L. Ron Hubbard stressed ‘put in ethics’ to foil enemies

We were going through a pile of early Scientology materials and ran across a 1966 account of his African travels from L. Ron Hubbard that we found particularly entertaining. It has been posted to the Internet before, but we don’t think we’ve discussed it here at the Bunker. We do remember a few years ago […]

TODAY: Scientology wants you to make a resolution to fork over every penny in 2022

This new flier from Scientology was just too good not to share with you all this New Year’s weekend. […]

Ten years later: Debbie Cook’s indictment of Scientology under David Miscavige, annotated

Ten years ago, a little after midnight as 2012 had just begun, we started to get […]

Scientology’s 2021: Another year is in the books at the Underground Bunker!

Another year of the damn pandemic, and another year without a Howdycon. Yes, we have reasons to be glad to see the last of 2021. But on the other hand, this was a particularly strong year here at the Underground Bunker in terms of new sources, new leaks, and fascinating new […]

INSIDER: David Miscavige has one more trick planned to disguise Scientology’s sad state

Our new inside source is back with another startling assessment of the state of Scientology right at this minute. He says David Miscavige is desperate after the attrition of two years of the pandemic, and now has one more Hail Mary to keep things going in 2022. This is fascinating […]

Juliette Lewis tells the NY Times she doesn’t identify as a Scientologist: What gives?

[Juliette Lewis and her late father, actor Geoffrey Lewis]

We heard from a lot of readers who noted that Juliette Lewis, in a new interview at the New York Times this week, seemed to distance herself from Scientology, which she grew up […]

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