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Joe McDonald was angry. A paramedic tried to calm him down, but he looked at the damage done to his boat’s motor and he stared menacingly at the woman who had been so oblivious that she’d driven her red Jeep right into it. Continue reading Lisa McPherson’s last opportunity for standard care ended 20 years ago today
Twenty years ago today, at three in the morning, Brenda Hubert woke up in her Orlando hotel room to find her roommate, Lisa McPherson, sitting on her, holding her arms down. Continue reading Our Scientology tech experts review Lisa McPherson’s grim cycle of guilt and self-blame
Lisa McPherson woke up the morning of November 16, 1995 looking like hell. She had hardly got any sleep overnight in her Orlando hotel room, which she was sharing with her friend and fellow AMC Publishing employee, Brenda Hubert. Continue reading Lisa McPherson in Orlando: What her hotel roommate witnessed, and the Slaughter rule
Twenty years ago today, on Wednesday, November 15, 1995, Lisa McPherson and her friend Brenda Hubert drove from Clearwater, Florida to Orlando and checked into a hotel. Lisa had not slept much the night before, so she went up to her room for a nap while other employees of AMC Publishing were still arriving. Continue reading Tom DeVocht: Watching David Miscavige watch Lisa McPherson and her faulty ‘needle’
Frequent contributor Jeffrey Augustine is back with another look at Scientology and money. Recently, the Netherlands upheld a legal decision to deny Scientology tax exempt status, and one of the reasons given was that it made no sense to the Dutch that a “church” would be charging such exorbitant rates. Can you imagine a court in the US similarly making such an obvious conclusion? Anyway, that gave us the excuse to remind people just what Scientology charges for its services. Take it away, Jeff… Continue reading Jeffrey Augustine: Just a friendly reminder — Scientology prices are outrageous
[Miscavige, in 1998; photo by Robin Donina Serne]
Marc Headley remembers where he was and what he was doing because David Miscavige, the leader of Scientology, was spitting obscenities about, of all things, the bad teeth belonging to Marc’s stepfather. Continue reading Why it was Scientology leader David Miscavige who declared Lisa McPherson ‘Clear’
Right around this day twenty years ago, Dallas resident Fannie McPherson, who was then 70 years old, had her last telephone conversation with her 36-year-old daughter Lisa. Continue reading Countdown to Room 174: Remembering, in real time, Scientology’s grimmest scandal
 In August, we told you about Jonathan Little (pictured), an Indiana attorney who is handling several lawsuits against Scientology’s drug rehab network, Narconon.
He turned heads with his outspokenness. Referring to Scientology’s delaying legal strategy, he said, “If Narconon and Scientology want to have a decade-long war, I have nothing else to do and I’m not going away.” Continue reading Under oath, Narconon official lets slip that drug rehab organized just like Scientology
[The woman Scientology won’t name]You have to give Scientology leader David Miscavige one thing: Once he makes a decision, it can get carried out very quickly. And after this weekend’s opening of a large new Narconon center in Clearwater, Florida, it’s plain that a major project Miscavige set into motion a couple of years ago is now pretty much complete. Narconon, as we know it, is over. Continue reading Narconon is dead, long live Narconon! How Scientology solved its drug rehab addiction
We have something of a cryptic story this morning. Some months ago, we were asked a question by a researcher and we didn’t have access to the answer at the time. Now we’ve stumbled upon it, and we thought rather than just email that person, we’d post the answer publicly for the heck of it. Continue reading Scientology on the high seas: When L. Ron Hubbard was still making tech ‘breakthroughs’
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