Scientology | The Underground Bunker

You’ve just been through Scientology’s Wall of Fire: It’s time to party!

We know you’re hearing some pretty grim things about Scientology’s prospects these days, with dwindling membership, damning lawsuits, and terrible press, but as we never hesitate to point out, Scientology never gives […]

For an outfit that sells immortality, Scientology really sucks about death

[Yvonne Gillham Jentzsch, center, and the early Celebrity Centre community]

In June 1976, my grandmother died in my little sister’s bed. She was 80. She was my last living grandparent. After her husband, my grandpa, had died in 1968, I spent several summers at her house with her, just the two of us, staying up late […]

East Grinstead councillor resigns amid Scientology controversy: A connection?

[Was Councillor John Dabell fed up with Mayor Visser’s Scientology entanglement?]

For a few months now, we’ve been helping Alex Barnes-Ross document the chaos that seems to have gripped East Grinstead since that English town, which is where Scientology has its UK headquarters, reacted to questions raised by Alex and others about the cozy relationship between […]

The most ideal part of Scientology’s new Ideal Orgs? They’re ready for Ron’s return!

Now that the dust has settled on David Miscavige’s whirlwind tour that had him opening three Scientology ‘Ideal Orgs’ in only nine days, in Austin, Mexico City, and Chicago, we thought we’d spend a moment to focus not so much on his grand opening parties outside these new buildings as on what’s […]

David Miscavige and his shills open Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ in Chicago

For the third time in nine days, Scientology leader David Miscavige presided over the grand opening of a new ‘Ideal Org’ that had been sitting, ready to open, for […]

How I trained to be a Scientology spy in order to save L. Ron Hubbard from SMERSH

The minute you start Scientology’s very first course, the Communications Course, you are told they are going to teach you to be a master […]

PODCAST: She infiltrated Scientology in Austin, and returned for its ‘Ideal Org’

We waited a long time for the four-year drought to end and for Scientology leader David Miscavige to start putting on his Ideal Org dog-and-pony shows […]

Priscilla Presley hangs out with Scientology celeb and longtime friend Gottfried Helnwein

Lisa Marie Presley was very adamant about it: She told us that after her disastrous trip to the Flag Land Base in October 2014, not only did she no longer consider herself a Scientologist, but she told her mother Priscilla and her daughter Riley Keough that they were coming out of the church with […]

Scientology finally to open Chicago ‘Ideal Org’ — but it’s been soaking locals for a generation

[Dave is opening Ideal Orgs again]

Now that the confetti has settled in Austin, we’re wondering if Scientology is going to hold to its announced schedule and open Ideal Orgs in Mexico City on Friday and Chicago on […]

Heber Jentzsch is 88, but Scientology still makes this surprising claim about him

[Heber Jentzsch at Maiden Voyage in 2006]

Yesterday, Valerie Ross provided another of her fascinating glimpses into the life of a Scientologist, someone so dedicated to the cause that she had, at one time, infiltrated and spied on the FBI for Scientology’s espionage wing, the Guardian’s […]

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