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Another Secret Scientology Vault

Wednesday, 16th January 2008 by James

Outside a ranch home in Creston, CA there’s a private racetrack, with a familiar looking symbol.

Haven’t I seen this before?

Ah, yes! That’s the super-secret symbol indicating hidden vaults that contain the complete works of late science fiction author and general all-round nutjob L Ron Hubbard.

Let’s hope Tom Cruise doesn’t set the scientology lawyers on us for linking to the map (or that video that just today got leaked onto the Internet!)

Thanks: hominid

10 Responses to 'Another Secret Scientology Vault'

  1. 1. dr.R. says:

    The old Egyptians built pyramids, modern humans (well, some of them apparently) build ’secret vaults’ … That’s real progress

    Fortunately for us they didn’t seem to think of Google Earth ;)

  2. 2. Mike says:

    I’m guessing this is probably the ranch where LRH died.

  3. 3. myquealer says:

    The YouTube video has been taken down, no surprise there.

  4. 4. Ma$e says:

    Shhhhhhh…..Church of Scientology is really C.I.A. mind control experiment/money machine. Shhhhhhhhh…..you didn’t hear it from me.

  5. 5. turtle says:

    check out the video here. http://gawker.com/5002269/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tried-to-suppress

  6. 6. Lee says:

    I love how that site described where LRH was buried…
    “Remains: Cremated, Dumped into the Pacific Ocean”

  7. 7. nathar says:

    Send In the SWEENEY!!!.

  8. 8. Mike says:

    From wikipedia:
    Hubbard died at his ranch on 24 January 1986, aged 74, reportedly from a stroke. Scientology attorneys arrived to claim his body, which they sought to have cremated immediately per his will. They were blocked by the San Luis Obispo County medical examiner, who ordered a drug toxicology test of a blood sample from Hubbard’s corpse. The examination revealed a trace amount of the drug hydroxyzine (brand name Vistaril). Vistaril is an antihistamine and mild sedative sometimes used for symptomatic treatment of anxiety, neurosis or as an adjunct in non-related diseases in which anxiety is apparent. It is also useful as an anti-emetic (to prevent nausea), and in treating allergic pruritus such as chronic urticaria and atopic and contact dermatoses. After the blood was taken, Hubbard’s remains were cremated.

  9. 9. hominid says:

    Yes this is the location where LRH died. In fact it was in a 1982 Bluebird RV parked near the stables southwest of the main house. Unlike the New Mexico location, there is no evidence that there is a vault here.

  10. 10. António Martins-Tuválkin says:

    At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_of_Scientology it says it is the Church of Spiritual Technology logo.

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