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How insidious is Scientology? Cathy Mullins on how she got sucked back in after escaping

[“I set up the tent every weekend…I had become the perfect Ronbot.”]

Last time, I mentioned that when my mother went off to Saint Hill in the mid-1960s, she left me the phone number of the Scientology org in Phoenix and I began taking courses there. But I left something out: I met the love of []

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More Scientology euphoria: What it looks like to finish Grade 3!

 How do you top your Grade 2 success story when you finish Grade []

A Scientology escape saga, which includes serving L. Ron Hubbard a bad meal

 I read this website every day. For a while I even commented (nobs and nobs2). But I’m not particularly good at social interactions and may even have a bit of envy for the camaraderie, so I stopped. Now I’d like to tell a few []

Miss Lovely tells us she has a birthday wish this year, and it’s about Mr. Lovely

[Paul Noble and Paulette Cooper Noble]

Today Miss Lovely herself, Paulette Cooper, turns 79 years old. This year, she had a message for us that we were not expecting. We’ll let her tell the []

More proof Scientology’s ‘Fresh Start’ clinics going belly up: San Diego County site for sale

 We told you previously that Scientology is now only listing five US locations for its Narconon rehab network, down from dozens in past years. In particular, we’ve been watching the demise of its ‘Fresh Start’ clinics in Southern California. Longtime reader Science Doc has been keeping tabs on Fresh Start’s Warner Springs location in San []

Scientology is known for stalking people years after their involvement. Here’s how they do it.

 

You document hounds are really going to love us today. The “tl;dr” folks on the other hand, well, you’re going to hate us. []

The Scientologist who played a role in Tuesday’s historic Blue Origin launch

 Woohoo! Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard always predicted that Scientologists would eventually be central to spaceflight on this planet, and it’s finally become []

Here’s our motion to quash the subpoena Danny Masterson’s attorney slapped us with

[Danny Masterson and Tom Mesereau leave court on June 7]

We post a lot of court documents here at the Underground Bunker. It’s one of the things that sets this news site apart from others: We often show you the documents in a case rather than simply describe them to []

US Supreme Court: Valerie Haney fires back at Scientology about its ‘religious ritual’

[Marci Hamilton and Valerie Haney]

After Scientology told the US Supreme Court that Valerie Haney’s predicament is not a First Amendment issue, Valerie has fired back with a reply we think you’re going to want to []

BRIAN STATLER WAS UNARMED: Police say he grabbed their gun in Scientology org shooting

[Brian Statler, with sword, fan, and cane, when he first came into the Inglewood org]

In the 2019 death of Brian Statler at the Scientology “Ideal Org” in Inglewood, California, much was made of the “samurai sword” that witnesses said he had with him. But we pointed out at the time that breaking news coverage seemed []