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Recent controversies & financial crimes of Scientology: Katherine Olson interview, Part 2

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Scientology will turn your town’s eyesore into a gleaming cathedral when it feels like it

 Recently I went through 20 or more of our old Toronto Scientology friends’ names and checked their Facebook pages to see what they were up to currently. It’s amazing how few mention Scientology at all on there. Paris Morphopolous of Clearwater One Stoppe Shoppe fame has a brother George who at least as of a []

Chris Shelton interviews Katherine Olson, who only escaped Scientology’s Sea Org last year

 Big news from Chris Shelton this week as he has graduated with a masters degree and he has a live guest this week on his podcast who has only recently escaped from Scientology’s Sea []

Yes, Narconon IS Scientology, and we have video that settles the matter

 We’re continuing to mine some material that a former Scientology large donor sent our way, including some videos from what we call “peak Scientology,” the era when leader David Miscavige obviously felt pretty []

When Scientology says it will ‘Clear the Planet,’ here’s what it means

 One of the more common questions we get from people learning about Scientology is the phrase you often hear from the church about “clearing the []

VIDEO: This is peak Scientology, when its big donors were going to clear the planet

 What a treat we have for you today. If, that is, you appreciate dauntless, defiant, and resolute Scientology at its most galactically arrogant.

This is peak Scientology. This is []

‘Aftermath’ subject Liz Gale is sharing her Scientology experiences on TikTok

 Remember Liz Gale from Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath? We first wrote about Liz here at the Bunker in 2016, and her incredible story not only of growing up a third-generation Scientologist, but what it was like to watch her brother Philip Gale become a child prodigy, a genius in mathematics, who threw himself []

Tom Cruise pal Simon Pegg set to make film with rising star Scientologist director

 It was just a few weeks ago that we told you about Adam Sigal, the Scientologist writer-director whose sci-fi dark comedy, Chariot, opened in theaters last month to mixed reviews (Metacritic score: []

Scientology leader David Miscavige is 62 years old today, and we have presents!

 As a thetan, Scientology leader David Miscavige is some 76 trillion years old, so today’s milestone is just a blip on that scale. But with Dave’s current meat body turning 62 today, we thought we would mark the []

More proof that Hollywood is over Scientology: Netflix openly mocks it with billboard

 We’ve been saying for several years that Hollywood’s fascination with Scientology is long over, and increasingly the entertainment industry is showing its disdain for the once formidable group with veiled and not so veiled mocking references in various []