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[DJI Phantom 4 drone, like the one that took images of Int Base]It’s been 24 hours since we posted stunning drone footage of Scientology’s secretive Int Base near Hemet, California, and those videos, made by an anonymous drone pilot, are still up at YouTube where you can view them for yourself or even download them, with the blessing of the filmmaker. [Int Base flyover 1 and flyover 2] Continue reading Drone footage of Scientology’s secretive Int Base: The reaction from former base employees
Recently, the Underground Bunker was contacted by an anonymous source who said he had something rather spectacular he wanted to share with our readers. We were stunned when we saw what he was talking about. He has made super-high-quality films of Scientology facilities, using a 4K camera mounted on a drone. Continue reading Scientology’s secret sites: The Bunker premieres drone footage never before seen of ‘Int Base’
Maybe it’s all our fault. In the spring of 2012, Academy Award-winning producer Simon Chinn (Man on Wire, Searching for Sugar Man) took us to lunch at the Dos Caminos restaurant on Houston Street in Manhattan to talk about Scientology. Continue reading As Louis Theroux’s Scientology movie hits theaters, its main subject accuses it of deception
We want to thank Artoo45 for alerting us to the latest Advance! magazine, which has always been one of our favorite Scientology publications. It’s in Advance! that the “OT Phenomena” column runs. Jefferson Hawkins, who once edited Advance!, tells us that column was one of the most popular things the publications division put out. And we can see why. Continue reading As Scientology declines, its members are even giving up on their spooky super powers
UPDATE: Photos from today’s Advanced Org opening in Australia posted below. Rod Keller keeps an eye on Scientology social media for us, and this week he spotted a doozy. Take it away, Rod… Continue reading Florida AG Pam Bondi hosting human rights event at human rights abuser Scientology’s HQ
Australian television journalist Bryan Seymour is sending us messages from the scene of Scientology’s grand opening for its new “Advanced Org” in Chatswood, a suburb of Sydney. Continue reading Bryan Seymour reporting live from Scientology’s ‘Advanced Org’ opening in Sydney
[Dan Koon and his wife Mariette Lindstein]Here in the US, we’ve started our long weekend celebrating Labor Day and unofficially ending the summer. And we’re getting the weekend going thanks to our longtime contributor Jeffrey Augustine, who is back with another podcast. Continue reading Dan Koon, co-writer of Scientology tell-all ‘Ruthless,’ on his days with L. Ron Hubbard
In July, we showed you some wacky screenshots from Scientology’s newest “testimonials” video, which gets shipped out each year with a new issue of International Scientology News. Well, now we have the video itself, and we think you’re going to love this new entry in this wonderful genre of Scientology filmmaking. Continue reading ‘Finally, I am myself’: Scientologists talk about Scientology in a video not made for the public
Late last night, Marty Rathbun posted at his blog a lengthy broadside criticizing Ron Miscavige’s memoir, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me. Continue reading Marty Rathbun defends Scientology leader David Miscavige as he trashes tell-all memoir ‘Ruthless’
Vance Woodward is one of our favorites here at the Underground Bunker. We greatly enjoyed the book he wrote about his time in Scientology (now no longer for sale), and he helped us write one of our favorite series, as we blogged L. Ron Hubbard’s 1950 classic Dianetics from cover to cover. Continue reading Vance Woodward’s appeal fails as Scientology has the L.A. attorney on the hook for $90,000
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