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We’ve cooked up for you a special Scientology Thanksgiving — so pass the Source!

[Marcabian race car, maybe]

Here in the United States, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving today, and at the Underground Bunker we sure have a lot to be thankful for this year. […]

If Trump is serious, he has a clear path to go at Scientology — through his Treasury Secretary

[Trump, Miscavige, Mnuchin]

Does Donald Trump really want to end Scientology’s tax exempt status? That’s the provocative notion that Yashar Ali floated Thursday at the Huffington Post, but Yashar included a lot of caveats about whether there was any truth to the idea, or whether a president even has the influence to make such a […]

Scientology plan to shut road through its secretive ‘Int Base’ in California foiled again

Once again, the enterprising Erin Hodges Plumb of Hemet, California, was on the scene for a Scientology Watching adventure, and we have her report. […]

Coming to grips with Scientology’s most vile secret, which was hiding in plain sight

About two years ago, a reader first made us aware of a shocking passage in L. Ron Hubbard’s book Dianetics that somehow seems to have been overlooked by generations of commenters on that important volume, the very basis for what became the Church of […]

Never before seen: Video of a woman moments after achieving superhuman Scientology powers

Today’s story, Bunker readers, is going to test you. On Saturday, we debuted some fascinating and rare footage from home video of a Scientology event — the 1989 L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Celebration aboard Scientology’s private cruise ship, the […]

Is Scientology’s notorious prison detail — the ‘RPF’ — a thing of the past?

There are so many horror stories about what Scientology’s “Sea Org” members have experienced while serving in the “Rehabilitation Project Force,” the organization’s prison […]

Never before seen: Video from the first ‘LRH Birthday’ aboard the Scientology ‘Freewinds’

Wow, what a treat we have for you today. Thanks to a tipster who wants to remain nameless, we have something super rare in the world of Scientology — home video from an event, and not just any event, but the first L. Ron Hubbard birthday celebrated on the MV Freewinds, the church’s private cruise […]

DOX: L. Ron Hubbard’s son called him a junkie and sex pervert in FBI’s Scientology files

[Ron DeWolf and his dad, L. Ron Hubbard]

We have yet another FBI document release for you today, the result of a lawsuit by journalist Emma Best that has pried loose several interesting files from the law enforcement agency in recent weeks. Previously, we published a file about the FBI’s 2009 human trafficking investigation of the […]

What Scientology itself says about the way it’s going to change how your mind works

Jon Atack is the author of A Piece of Blue Sky, one of the very best books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. For more than three years he’s been helping us sift through the legends, myths, and contested facts about Scientology that tend to get hashed and rehashed in books, articles, and especially on […]

Fair Play: Before Leah Remini takes another whack, here’s a word from Scientology itself

Tomorrow, Leah Remini and Mike Rinder launch season two of Scientology and the Aftermath with an episode which is going to eclipse everything they’ve done before. (Yes, we’ve seen it, and we’re going to tell you more about it tomorrow morning.) Once again, social media will be swamped with people expressing shock at what they’re […]

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