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“Yes ma’am, your application looks good and we are just about ready to approve it,” the man said over the phone. “We are just trying to understand why, at your age of 32, we are not seeing any type of credit history on your name and social security number. We just need to fill in […]
[Sunny, serving her billion-year contract]
Scientology in the 1970s was known for being a fun place, a cool hang out, a place to make new friends. This appeal brought in many new followers. Scientology was supposed to be a different kind of religion, a hip and cool […]
Although this story is my personal experience, and many could have had variations of this, I think it’s worth noting what Scientology’s “applied religious philosophy” does to its youngest members as far as trauma and […]
In 2013 we began a very popular series at the Underground Bunker which lasted more than a […]
I’m glad I won’t be dying at the hands of Scientology.
I don’t even know (or care) if my death will ever be remembered, but hey, a couple of “goodbyes” would be nice, when the time […]
[Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity Centre]
Our frequent contributor Sunny Pereira, a former Scientology Sea Org official at the Hollywood Celebrity Centre, came to the Danny Masterson trial on the last day of testimony. She was there as an advocate for her friend, Rachel Smith, who was the final witness to testify in the trial. We asked her […]
[The Hollywood Celebrity Centre]
A thorough new piece in New York magazine about Scientology’s abuse of R-1 visas not only reminded us of research by RM Seibert for the Bunker that we published in 2016. It also inspired Sunny Pereira to send us this memory of what the R-1 visa abuse actually looked like at the […]
I had just finished an interrogation session that I was doing on a Scientology registrar, because she wasn’t making enough money for the org. It wasn’t even actually my job, interrogations, but I was the preferred auditor for whatever […]
[From ‘No Kids Allowed’: Claire and Marc Headley and their then 2-year-old, Kaiden]
It was a question we heard from a number of our readers and sources after news broke Friday that the US Supreme Court had (as expected) struck down the landmark 1973 opinion Roe v. […]
[Sunny at the Hollywood Celebrity Centre]
I was called to the Bosun’s office with no explanation. It wasn’t the first time, and certainly wouldn’t be the last time […]
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