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Scientology’s 2013 in review: A summer of delicious scoops!

As 2014 approaches, we’re continuing our look back at the wild year that was. And now, we dive into the crazy month of August.

The month debuted with one of our most popular stories of the year — while everyone seemed to be asking if actress Leah Remini would suffer retaliation for defecting from Scientology, we []

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Scientology’s 2013 in review: July fireworks, courtesy of an actress from Brooklyn

We’re continuing our year-in-review, and we’ve come to the explosive month of July. But before we get into the drama created by the biggest Scientology celebrity defection ever, a few other important things happened as the summer []

Scientology’s 2013 in review: The appeals of May and the blunts of June

The mugshot of Denise Gentile

We now return to our annual year-in-review, and we hope you enjoy hearing about how busy we were this past spring here in the Bunker.

The month of May started out with a legal setback for Scientology: a California appeals court refused to consider the church’s attempt to hold onto []

Scientology’s 2013 in review: Madness set in as spring arrived!

We want to wish a happy Boxing Day to our Commonwealth friends as we continue our look back at the year that was.

On March 1 we launched SMERSH MADNESS — our very own tournament of champions. On that first day, we pitted L. Ron Hubbard against Australian journalist Steve Cannane, and Hubbard won by only []

Merry Christmas, and here’s your present! From the Underground Bunker, with feeling

While we continue our year in review, we have a great interruption that we weren’t expecting — a gift to the Bunker community from one of our best, The Hole Does Not Exist.

She sent us a sound file, and we threw together some familiar Bunker images for it that we hope resonate for our loyal []

The Underground Bunker Year-in-Review starts today: A January for the ages!

It’s that time of year, when we look back at the past twelve months and recount the highlights here in the Underground Bunker.

As you settle in for the holidays, we want to give a big thanks to our amazing commenting community, which grew exponentially this year, and day in and day out has made this []

Scientology’s 2012 in Review: Parting Shots from a Year David Miscavige Won’t Soon Forget

Tiziano Lugli does his best Tom Cruise

And so we come to the end of this lengthy year in review, which no doubt has already gone on far too long for some readers.

If we’ve been longwinded, our excuse is that 2012 has been such an exceptional year for Scientology, and there were so many []

Scientology’s 2012 in Review: The Master Goeth Before a Fall

We’re still looking back at this amazing year for Scientology watchers, refreshing your memory about what got our attention in 2012.

We hope you have plenty to say as we look back at the stories that mattered in the past twelve months…

As the fall began, we were enjoying all the speculation by reviewers about the Scientology []

Scientology’s 2012 in Review: Narconon Goes Into Withdrawal [UPDATED]

Stacy Dawn Murphy

Happy Boxing Day! We’re still looking back at this amazing year for Scientology watchers, refreshing your memory about what got our attention in 2012.

We hope you have plenty to say as we look back at the stories that mattered in the past twelve months…

One of the most surprising things about 2012 []

Scientology’s 2012 in Review: Eight Days that Shook the World

Merry Christmas! We’re still looking back at this amazing year for Scientology watchers, refreshing your memory about what got our attention in 2012.

We hope you have plenty to say as we look back at the stories that mattered in the past twelve months…

June 29, 2012 will be remembered as the day the news broke that []