Once again, we want to put on the record just how tight Tom Cruise remains with Scientology, if only to prepare for the inevitable tabloid stories that show up about every six months claiming that he’...

Former London Scientology staffer Alex Barnes-Ross continues his relentless campaign to raise awareness about the organization’s controversies in the UK, and he continues to have success with media an...

We love a good Scientology hype video, and we have a couple of them for you today as staffers do their best to get the beleaguered rank and file to drop everything and quickly make plans to come to En...

We go way back with John P.

Scientologists have a little more than two weeks to prepare their travel to the UK now that the church has revealed the date of its annual International Association of Scientologists (IAS) anniversary...

Scientology is boasting on social media that it scored a major celebrity endorsement recently, and it’s such a rare occurrence, you can understand the church’s excitement.

On Friday, we posted a review of Tom Cruise’s new film Digger written by our friend, longtime film critic Luke Y.

Clearwater, Florida’s city council voted 3-2 on Thursday night to vacate the right-of-way of additional streets, this time for parking for an entertainment complex that is associated with the Church o...

Once again, we’re privileged to have a review from our longtime friend and film critic, Luke Y.

Once again, we’re privileged to have a review from our longtime friend and film critic, Luke Y.

In July, we told you that a new notice from Scientology indicated that some sucker had been convinced to pay for a “mission package” so a new unneeded outlet could be opened, this time in Tulsa, Oklah...

Tonight at 9 pm Eastern, 6 pm in California, the candidates for governor in that fair state will face off for the first debate since they advanced in a June primary.

Running for city council in Clearwater, Florida is a nonpartisan affair, and you would think that a candidate’s opinions about the city’s bullying by the Church of Scientology would matter more than a...

We’ve really been enjoying the photos sent to us by Scientology’s former film director, Mitch Brisker, and the stories he’s been telling us about what it was like to make these movies.

On Monday, we wrote about Josephine Riesman’s powerful new book about Beck that comes out on October 6 and was excerpted last week in New York magazine.

Your Proprietor returned home from last weekend’s HowdyCon convention in Connecticut and was promptly waylaid by a cold.

We are writing less these days about Scientology’s network of drug rehabs, Narconon, because the rehabs just aren’t as important in the Scientology movement as they used to be.

The press was wowed by Tom Cruise attending the London premiere of his new film Digger on Tuesday along with Prince William and Princess Kate for the 73rd Royal Film Performance, held in support of th...

In a Los Angeles courtroom this week, Superior Court Judge Kevin Brazile heard from the Church of Scientology that Valerie Haney’s “religious arbitration” is still not completed, and so he scheduled a...

In case you missed it during our recent HowdyCon adventures, we managed to keep an eye on what’s been going on in Clearwater, Florida and the fight there over a downtown street that Scientology wants ...

A powerful new book by author and trans activist Josephine Riesman makes the case that you can’t understand the life and career of the musician Beck without understanding his involvement in — and abus...

In today’s New York Times blockbuster investigation of how the Trump administration has bankrupted the Kennedy Center, there’s a photo of some bad wall art that’s getting a lot of attention.

The Underground Bunker held its first HowdyCon convention since 2019 this weekend in New London, Connecticut.

Some of the things that went on last night at HowdyCon 2026 in New London, Connecticut, as we opened our shindig with pizza and drinks at a speakeasy and with many folks wearing 20s garb, just for fun...

The Underground Bunker is resurrecting HowdyCon, the set of conventions it held from 2016 to 2019, and today it begins in New London, Connecticut.

Last year, Scientology marked the 75th anniversary of the publication of Dianetics — the L.

One of our helpers found some photos online showing a team from Scientology’s Cincinnati Ideal Org (which is actually in Kentucky) selling copies of Dianetics at a local mall.

Should Swifties be concerned?

Back in 2015, we were on tour for our book about Paulette Cooper, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, when one of our readers asked a question: Why were we visiting so many places to meet people?

Thanks to the never-ending stream of slop we are all fed on our digital devices, I recently came across a video of Elena Cardone, who, along with her husband Grant Cardone, are major Scientology donor...

We’ve remarked in the past that it strikes us as unusual that among the new L.

On this solemn occasion, 25 years after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, we remember that the Church of Scientology tried to turn the tragedy into a sales opportunity.

We first met Jeffrey Augustine on the roof of Marty Rathbun’s house in Ingleside-by-the-bay, Texas.

One of the standard features of Scientology is the “graduation,” when someone is asked to give a little speech about the “wins” they’ve gained after what might be a long and grueling regimen of auditi...

We’re so glad to have Sunny Pereira back.

It’s Labor Day here in the US, and traditionally, that’s when political campaigns kick off before a November election.

Yesterday, we told you that a new issue of Scientology’s Impact magazine contained a photographic tribute to some of the church’s donors, including the usual megadonors we have come to know so well.

Scientology’s annual celebration of its biggest donors — the Patrons Ball at the annual IAS gala held in England in autumn — is not very far off.

If you’ve hesitated in the past about ditching your family and turning over all of your cash to an organization founded by a 20th century science fiction writer in order to learn who you were 40 billi...

We continue our dive into the early history of Scientology’s founder L.

Former Scientology film director Mitch Brisker has even more photos for us from the church’s movie sets, and this time he’s given us a great narrative about being sandwiched between L.

We have what we think is a pretty telling video that suggests just how difficult it’s getting to drag Scientologists to their latest fleecing.

Scientology leader David Miscavige revealed the church’s new initiative aimed at kids — the Golden Age for a New Generation — at the L.

A few weeks ago, we told you that there was mounting evidence which suggested to us that Scientology’s most famous celebrity, Tom Cruise, did attend the church’s big ground-breaking ceremony in Clearw...

Another tribute to seminal New York punk band the Ramones is happening tomorrow at the Hollywood Forever cemetery, where legendary guitarist Johnny Ramone is buried.

In February, we received an email from a longtime reader, asking for our help after his wife, whom we have called Dawn, received an unsolicited and unwanted sexual video from Lemonheads frontman Evan ...

[Also, just in: The court has denied Scientology’s request to put in one more argument about its amicus brief for Danny Masterson, see below.]

YouTube video by Apostate Alex

Eleven years ago, we were fortunate to premiere a number of fascinating videos at the Underground Bunker.

Here’s the latest from Alex Barnes-Ross in London…