FOLLOW ME ON
Daily Notifications
Sign up for free emails to receive the feature story every morning in your inbox at tonyortega.substack.com

Categories

Supporting Leah Remini and her show — what’s the risk for viewers who expose Scientology?

 
There’s a law firm in Manhattan that struggled this week to cope after it came under a bizarre attack.

Continue reading Supporting Leah Remini and her show — what’s the risk for viewers who expose Scientology?

‘Leah Remini’ show prompting more ‘ranch kids’ to come forward with agonizing family drama

[Clarissa and Ethan Adams]

We continue to be amazed at the effect Leah Remini is producing with her A&E series, Scientology and the Aftermath. As her second season progresses, we’re seeing more and more people speak up about their experiences in Scientology.

Continue reading ‘Leah Remini’ show prompting more ‘ranch kids’ to come forward with agonizing family drama

Forced to open its books, one overseas Scientology rehab shows that business is grim

 
One of the tough things about reporting on the Church of Scientology is that its tax-exempt status allows it to hide much of its financial information from the public. In some countries, however, Scientology and its front groups have to open their books. Among them is the Netherlands, where once again we’re getting a look at the annual financial report from the Narconon drug rehab center there. And just like last year, we’ve asked our resident money man, John P. Capitalist, to go over the numbers…

Continue reading Forced to open its books, one overseas Scientology rehab shows that business is grim

Scientology’s ultimate prize: For the first time online, the current ‘OT 8’ materials laid bare

 
Last night’s episode of the A&E network’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath was special in a number of ways. Through the first season and into the second, Leah had said she didn’t want to get into specific Scientology “beliefs,” and she mentioned the Xenu story in particular, saying that it was irrelevant to her mission to expose Scientology’s abuses. But last night, she got into Xenu and the rest of Scientology’s “Bridge to Total Freedom” in a big way.

Continue reading Scientology’s ultimate prize: For the first time online, the current ‘OT 8’ materials laid bare

Missouri school district boots sneaky Scientology front group after Underground Bunker article

 
We are happy to give Underground Bunker senior reporter Rod Keller a victory lap this morning after his weekend story about a Scientology front group got quick results. Here’s Rod with the latest…

Continue reading Missouri school district boots sneaky Scientology front group after Underground Bunker article

Tomorrow on ‘Leah Remini’: You’re going to learn what it’s like on Scientology’s ‘Bridge’

[Bruce Hines]

After three gut-wrenching victim-centered episodes of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath‘s second season, A&E is shaking things up by running a “special” episode that we think is not only well timed, but a long time coming.

Tomorrow night, you will begin your training as Scientologists.

Continue reading Tomorrow on ‘Leah Remini’: You’re going to learn what it’s like on Scientology’s ‘Bridge’

Scientology’s slick (and bogus) drug education program snares another school district

 
Rod Keller once again catches Scientology worming its way into unsuspecting classrooms and police departments with its sneaky front groups…

Continue reading Scientology’s slick (and bogus) drug education program snares another school district

Louis Theroux isn’t the first who tried to find Scientology’s positive side and failed

[Rev. Stewart Lamont, photo by Callum Moffat]

Louis Theroux’s My Scientology Movie is now on Netflix, but Jon Atack reminds us that Theroux wasn’t the first investigator who tried to find something positive to say about Scientology, and ended up in a very different place.

Continue reading Louis Theroux isn’t the first who tried to find Scientology’s positive side and failed

DRONE FLYOVER: Scientology’s failed underground vault project in Wyoming

 
The drone pilot is back! Since last September, the Underground Bunker has been the beneficiary of a shadowy anonymous drone operator who has allowed us to premiere his amazing overhead views of secretive Scientology sites.

Continue reading DRONE FLYOVER: Scientology’s failed underground vault project in Wyoming

As Leah Remini’s second season hammers away, Scientology is losing its mind

 
It’s probably safe to say that the Church of Scientology is now in the grips of a complete meltdown.

Continue reading As Leah Remini’s second season hammers away, Scientology is losing its mind