Blown for Good: Scientology Exposed
Marc Headley worked at Scientology’s secret desert compound, which houses all Scientology management, for 15 years. The 500-acre property is located deep in the California desert. The local townspeople were told lectures and films were made there. But is that all that was happening? It is the location of a multi-million dollar home for L. Ron Hubbard, built two decades after his death. It is the home of Scientology’s current leader, David Miscavige. So what really happens at the Int Base? Are the stories on the internet true? How does Scientology conduct management of its day-to-day operations? Could stories of armed guards, weapons, staff beatings, and razor wire fences be true? If so, how could a facility like this exist in modern-day America? Hundreds of staff tried to escape over the years. Some succeeded but were never seen or heard of again, and most failed. Why were people kept here? What really went on at the headquarters of Scientology? This is the story of what happened behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology.
Episodes
235 episodes
Space Cootie Detector Built By Ten-Year-Olds
You’re told the Scientology e-meter is a “religious artifact” and a precision guide for spiritual counseling, but nobody ever wants you to look inside it. So we do the one thing Scientologists are NOT allowed to do: we open an e-meter on camera...
Debbie Cook Breaks Ranks and Exposes David Miscavige's Torturous Deeds
One email. Three weeks. A lawsuit. That’s the timeline Debbie Cook triggered when she quietly hit “send” to a list of high-level Scientologists on New Year’s Eve 2011. Debbie wasn’t a random critic. She spent decades inside the Sea Org, ran Sci...
Scientology's Arbitration Trap - Exposed - LIVE Discussion
A “private religious process” sounds harmless until you see what it looks like on paper. We dig into newly public court documents describing Scientology’s so-called arbitration system and why experts say it’s not arbitration at all. From the Fr...
Cult Survivor Series #1 with Sarah Edmondson & Nippy Ames
The moment you realize “this could happen to anyone” is the moment you start getting your power back. We’re kicking off our Cult Survivor Series with two of the most important voices in the cult recovery space: Sarah Edmondson and Nippy Ames, c...
Leaving A Cult - Q&A
A cult doesn’t feel like a cult on day one. It feels like answers, belonging, and a plan for your life. Then the rules tighten, your world shrinks, and leaving starts to look unthinkable. We sit down for a candid Q&A about what people get w...
Scientology’s New Child Pipeline - Secrets of Scientology #8
Scientology doesn’t need to say “join us” when it can start with cartoon books, “communication” drills, and a Saturday activity that looks like harmless family fun. We dig into newly promoted Scientology kids’ courses tied to Clearwater’s Flag ...
How A Denver Comedy Night Helps Scientology Survivors Rebuild
A comedy club might be the last place you’d expect to hear real escape logistics, but that’s exactly why Comedy For A Cause worked. Claire and I recap our first in-person fundraiser at Comedy Works South in Denver, including a quick walkthrough...
Scientology Millionaire Members are also Scientology Spies - Secrets of Scientology #7
Ever wonder how a shrinking movement projects strength? We pull back the curtain on Scientology’s donor engine—where empty orgs are overshadowed by glossy Impact magazine spreads, 70-pound trophies, and staged photo ops that turn giving into a ...
How Scientology’s “Rehabilitation Project Force” Breaks People And Why We Fought Back
A “rehabilitation” program that feels like prison. A forgiveness ritual that ends at a paint shed. A Christmas day so rare that 60 people sprint down Hollywood Boulevard to seize it before it’s canceled. We take you inside Scientology’s Rehabil...
Secrets, Surveillance, And Survival At Gold Base - Secrets of Scientology LIVE Q&A
Secrets don’t just hide in the shadows at Scientology’s international headquarters—they’re baked into the rules. We open the door on life at Gold Base: the mail opened before you read it, the addresses laundered through Hollywood to disguise lo...
Escaped a Cult, Now What? - Secrets Of Scientology #4
The first days of freedom don’t come with instructions. We walked out with a suitcase, a borrowed car, and a head full of rules to unlearn—then found a pizza shop with a Help Wanted sign and realized the world outside wasn’t the barren wastelan...
Empty Halls, Full Ledgers: How Scientology Still Brings In Cash - Secrets of Scientology #3
Step inside Scientology’s balance sheet and the picture changes fast: small, friendly intro courses up front, a steep climb of costly counseling and training behind the curtain, and one Florida powerhouse quietly bankrolling the whole machine. ...
What Happens When A Church Builds A Prison Out Of Policy - Secrets of Scientology #2 w/ Mat Pesch
A “rehabilitation” unit that looks like a labor camp, a policy that promises rest and study while people lie on foam pads after all-nighters, and a workforce that builds studios, refaces Big Blue, and even handles VIP logistics—this is the RPF ...
Freedom Day: Claire’s Escape From Scientology - Secrets of Scientology #1
Freedom doesn’t always announce itself with trumpets. Sometimes it looks like a quiet walk past an optometrist’s office, a cab ride that feels like a lifetime, and a choice that will cost you every family tie the group controls. We’re marking C...
We Honor Friends, Challenge Scientology’s Myths, And Launch A Comedy Fundraiser To Help Survivors
Grief and grit can share the same room. We open with a tough roll call—Mike Rinder, Jeff Hawkins, and Heber—names that shaped how the world understands Scientology from the inside. Their stories invite a wider look at power, control, and the ta...
From Crisis Calls To New Beginnings, We Show How Leaving Scientology Becomes Possible
A year of relentless help and louder hope. We open the doors on how the Michael J. Rinder Aftermath Foundation turned complaint campaigns into fuel, scaled a 24/7 crisis line, and put bold billboards across Los Angeles and London so Sea Org mem...
Shipboard Childhoods And Buried Memories - Scientology Secrets #24
A ship. A hotel turned school. A childhood taught to keep secrets. Pamela Nicole Williams joins us to trace a rare, ground-level history of Scientology—from her parents’ early work around Hubbard in D.C. and training at St. Hill to life aboard ...
From Gold Base To LA: Mitch Brisker On Narconon, Vaults, And Control - Scientology Secrets #23
The glossy reels say “global help.” The insiders tell a different story. We sit down with director Mitch Brisker to map how Scientology reengineered Narconon after multiple deaths, shifted operations from the secretive International Base to Los...
Holiday Realities Inside Scientology - Scientology Secrets #22
A holiday shouldn’t require a stopwatch. We open up about what Thanksgiving and Christmas looked like inside Scientology’s Sea Org—15-minute meals stretched to 45, staged fireplace photos mailed home as “proof of life,” and a steady drumbeat th...
We Answer Your Big Questions About Xenu, OT Levels, Shelly, And Life After Escaping Scientology - Scientology Secrets #21
What happens when you strip the mystique from Scientology and just answer the hard questions? We open the inbox and go straight at the topics most people tiptoe around: where Shelly Miscavige is likely being held, why so few members ever reach ...
How Scientology Turns Space Opera Into Spiritual Debt - Scientology Secrets #20
A space opera with DC-8s, volcanoes, and billion-soul “implants” shouldn’t be the engine of a modern religion—yet that’s exactly the story that sits behind Scientology’s most guarded levels. We pull the curtain back on the Xenu narrative from O...
Secrets Under The Desert: Scientology’s Vaults Explained - Scientology Secrets #19 (Q&A)
A church that prepares for the end of the world tells you everything about its present. We dig into Scientology’s underground vaults built by the Church of Spiritual Technology—why they exist, how the etched steel archives are made, and the str...
How Scientology Hides Its Past In Nuclear-Proof Vaults - Scientology Secrets #18
A religion that etches its scriptures into stainless steel, presses its sermons onto gold records, and seals everything inside titanium capsules buried in mountains sounds like science fiction. We take you there—mapping Scientology’s Church of ...
Inside Scientology’s Int Base Q&A - Scientology Secrets #17
What does life at Scientology’s international headquarters actually look like when the cameras aren’t rolling? We open the map to Gold Base—also known as Int Base—and walk through who’s there, what they do, and why nearly everything meaningful ...
Mapping the Secrets of Scientology Gold Base - Scientology Secrets #16
A gleaming studio with a fence that listens. That’s the paradox at Gold Base, Scientology’s international HQ, where Golden Era Productions presents a pristine creative campus while security systems hum beneath the hedges. We take you through bo...