Year in Review | The Underground Bunker

What Scientology’s ‘social betterment’ front groups are really all about

A lot of our coverage this year was about Scientology’s numerous front groups. From Legoland giving the Scientology front Youth for Human Rights $10,000 to play with, to the various disasters of Narconon drug rehabs, Scientology’s sneaky “social betterment” groups seemed to make a bigger push than ever to get L. Ron Hubbard’s name out […]

Scientology’s 2015 in review: In September, Erika Christensen was out of this universe

We love these last few days of the year. Winter is finally setting in here, and it’s nice having two four-day weekends in a row. Also, it means were still looking back at the most significant stories we covered this year at the Underground Bunker. In this post we’re remembering the stories of […]

Confirmed: Narconon’s entire Northern California network splits with Scientology

Last month, we told you that Scientology leader David Miscavige was in the process of detonating and rebirthing his drug rehab network, Narconon. He’s opening new centers around the world, and the existing centers are being given an ultimatum: Get with the new program and be more tightly managed by Scientology itself, or get […]

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 […]

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 […]

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