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Scientology’s 2015 in review: Our July travels, and the day care story we can’t forget

 We want to thank everyone who’s been sending us warm holiday wishes. We apologize that we’ve been slow to respond to messages. Like everyone else, we have a lot going on in our subterranean lair during these final days of the year. But in the meantime, we continue to look back at the stories that []

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On Boxing Day, we remember the last time Scientology tried to knock out the press

 While we’re recovering from Christmas here in New York, in other parts of the world our readers are celebrating Boxing Day, a holiday which is generally a complete mystery to us Americans. (And yes, we know it has nothing to do with the sport of boxing.) Well, whatever it is you all get up to []

Merry Christmas 2015: Here’s your Scientology present under the tree

 While David Miscavige excitedly runs to his Christmas tree this morning to find what gifts his Sea Org workers bought him by scraping together money from their 40-cents-an-hour pay (yes, they actually do that), we have our own Christmas miracle for our []

Release the hounds! Scientology suddenly getting more aggressive with media: Report

 On this Christmas Eve, we wanted to tell you about an interesting exchange we had recently with a fellow []

Scientology’s 2015 in review: In March, HBO went Clear while we eavesdropped on Flag

 The cats are curled tight against the chill down here in the Bunker as we dive into another winter, and they’ve become awfully vocal lately about the treats schedule. (They’re fanatical about observing the seasons properly, even if the conditions don’t really call for it. The calendar might say it’s winter, it’s true, but it’s []

The Scientologist who sold a hot dinosaur skull to Nicolas Cage

[Izzy Chait at LAX, the actual skull sold in 2007, and an actor out $276,000.]

By now you’ve probably heard the news that actor Nicolas Cage is giving back to the nation of Mongolia a stolen Tyrannosaurus bataar skull he bought at an auction in 2007. It’s the latest shoe to drop after a notorious broker, []

The Underground Bunker’s 2015 Scientology year-in-review starts today!

 And here we are again! Wow, this has, without a doubt, been the best year of Scientology watching that your proprietor has ever experienced. We hope 2015 was as eventful and fulfilling for you as it was for us. It felt like we never got a chance to catch a breath this year, but we []

Scientology’s 2014 in review: So long to another great year in the Bunker!

We hope you have something fun planned for tonight as we welcome in 2015. Whether it’s a wild party or just staying home with loved ones, enjoy yourselves and be safe.

We’ll always be a little on edge as the clock strikes midnight after what happened three years ago — we had put a lot of []

Scientology’s 2014 in review: Our October surprise was all about the Duggans

Bob Duggan

We’re nearly done with our year-end look back at the most significant stories here in the Underground Bunker.

And now we’re looking at October, when we released our biggest investigative story of 2014. But first, there was a mess at PAC base that we needed help []

One Scientologist is out to teach HBO a lesson for its upcoming documentary

Myles Binford

The last time we checked in on Myles Binford, the Orange County, California businessman was organizing a running race in order to benefit a couple of Scientology’s front groups.

Binford is an OT 8 — the highest step on the Bridge to Total Freedom is Operating Thetan Level Eight, and the people who []