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Pasadena drunk kicks hole in Scientology door: Will this ‘hate crime’ be blamed on Leah Remini?

[The Pasadena org, when it was boarded up last year]

Scientology’s ‘Ideal Org’ in Pasadena, California is less ideal today after an intoxicated man broke the glass of its front door by kicking it on Friday […]

Academics who ignore defectors as ‘apostates’ will never see Scientology for what it is

The Underground Bunker asked former Sea Org official Chris Shelton to dig into a new academic paperback about Scientology, which is the latest issue of a journal called Implicit Religion. We think you’ll find Chris’s take in this first piece, which he comes at admitting his own personal biases, fascinating.

In my limited experience with the […]

New evidence that private eyes stalking Leah Remini and J-Lo were working for Scientology

[TV polygraph expert Dan Ribacoff and his son Lance]

TV polygraph expert Dan Ribacoff has denied that his private investigators were following Leah Remini on behalf of the Church of Scientology in December 2017 when she was in New York filming a movie with her friend, Jennifer […]

Another Scientology OT dies of Covid, this time near the Florida ‘spiritual mecca’

[In January, Sergio Rojo was the happy buyer of a Mirit Castro painting.]

We’ve learned about the death of another OT Scientologist to Covid, and we found out about it from a Scientologist who had also been battling the disease, a woman named Julia in Clearwater, Florida, which is home to Scientology’s “spiritual mecca,” the Flag […]

Appeals court moves back hearing, and asks if Scientology arbitration is ‘neutral’

[Chrissie Bixler and the state supreme court that granted review of her suit against Danny Masterson]

There seems to have been a pretty interesting development in the Bixler v. Scientology lawsuit — the case that is getting an appeal thanks to the California Supreme […]

Scientology’s personality test is a hit on TikTok: Can David Miscavige capitalize on it?

Why didn’t Dave think of this earlier? It’s how things work now, and Scientology has finally stumbled on […]

Where is Scientology in 2021? Outside the US, it’s largely in Taiwan and Mexico

[Scientology opens its ‘Ideal Org’ in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on December 7, 2013]

The Australian SBS network had a very good story at its website this week, looking at the way Scientology’s hapless front groups have tried to spread the word about L. Ron Hubbard in Indonesia (Criminon), Guam (Applied Scholastics), and East Timor (Youth for Human […]

Russia’s latest strategy to curb Scientology: Shut down the money pipeline

[A WISE conference in Russia in 2015]

Scientology faces new restrictions in Russia following an announcement by the Office of the Prosecutor General (GPRF). In a Telegram post on 24 September, the GPRF […]

Oregonian newspaper names Scientology prep school best small employer in the state

[The Delphian, Scientology’s Hogwarts]

We want to thank the reader who made us aware that a newspaper we’ve long had a lot of respect for, the Oregonian, this week named Scientology’s pricey boarding school, Delphian, not only the best small business to work for in Oregon, but also the small employer, get this, with the best […]

Scientology OT 8 and ‘STAND’ blogger who expressed anti-vax views dies of Covid

Brian Duimovich was well known in the Camarillo area in Ventura County, California, where he owned a Mexican eatery a few years ago. But he lived most recently in Happy Valley, Oregon, a suburb of Portland, where he worked as a real estate agent and financial […]

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