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Well, we should have known it was too good to be true. On October 19, we reported that Maryann Carter, a woman in Kentucky, had posted to a Facebook group that Tom Cruise, through a family member, had requested that photos of Suri Cruise no longer appear on the group. “She is no longer part of his life,” Carter said. Continue reading We got catfished! Tom Cruise’s ‘friend’ rooked us with a lot of lies
We’re glad to have back Chris Owen, author of the important work Ron, The “War Hero.” Few people are as dedicated to nailing down details of L. Ron Hubbard’s history as Chris. And he has another fine addition to his work for us today. Continue reading Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as a cop in Los Angeles: What’s the real truth?
Rod Keller gets us into the protest held in the Canadian city of Guelph yesterday as the locals let Scientology know that its “CLO” is not welcome there. Continue reading In Canada, Scientology does not get the welcome it might have been expecting
[Ray Emmons, left, with Robert Peterson at Flag Down in 2014]Yesterday, Ray Emmons died of a heart attack. He was 75. We’re remembering him here at the Underground Bunker with the help of Robert Peterson, 68, who got to know Ray when Bob was working for the Lisa McPherson Trust in 2000. Continue reading Ray Emmons, 1942-2017: Clearwater’s cop who sniffed out Scientology’s secrets
Like anything else in Scientology, how children are treated is governed by a huge number of policies and reports, and in this series we’re looking documents that show how children were treated under the ideas of L. Ron Hubbard. We’re fortunate that one man has done so much to collect huge numbers of such documents — Mark “Warrior” Plummer, who left Scientology in 1983, and is pretty legendary for the collection of church materials he’s amassed. Also helping us is Sunny Pereira, who for several weeks has been working with Mark to pull out key documents for us to discuss.
Continue reading KID CORPS: Scientology wanted to turn children into little machines of Sea Org efficiency
Leah Remini’s second season of Scientology and the Aftermath started off with a hammer blow to the church — a devastating episode about child molestation in Scientology that was condoned and covered up. Continue reading Mirriam Francis: Picturing Scientology parents who abandon their children to abuse
[Hungary’s Attila Péterfalvi]We’re glad to have back Chris Owen, author of the important work Ron, The “War Hero.” After last week’s police raid of Scientology’s “Ideal Org” in Budapest, Chris is helping us make sense of what the government there is doing. Continue reading Chris Owen: How one country, at least, is savaging Scientology’s privacy nightmare
Tonight, at 10 pm A&E airs the second “special” episode in the second season of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, an episode which tries to come to grips with Scientology’s rapacious business model and how people get caught up in it. Continue reading Tonight on ‘Leah Remini’: The business of Scientology, and the pitfalls of suing it
On Saturday, Scientology leader David Miscavige opened his newest “Ideal Org,” his ongoing and very expensive effort to create a Potemkin Village of new and empty cathedrals to pretend that the rapidly shrinking church is actually undergoing “unprecedented expansion.” If this weren’t just all about fakery and PR, then Scientology wouldn’t expend so much energy keeping out onlookers and the press. But we’re fortunate that one of our regular readers, “Graham,” managed not only to visit the event but get inside. He sent us this account, and we figured you’d enjoy it. Continue reading Despite Scientology’s best efforts, a Bunker reader attended Saturday’s grand opening
Wally Hanks, the employee at the 1990s Scientologist-run Mace-Kingsley Ranch in New Mexico who was heard terrorizing a child on an audio tape played back for an episode of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath that aired on October 10, died Friday night at a hospital in Southern California. He was 70 years old. Continue reading Wally Hanks, Scientology ranch terror recently portrayed on ‘Leah Remini,’ dies at 70
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