Any horror stories from those who have tried to leave Scientology?

Answer 1

Wow , what a lot of really horrific stories you got !!!!

By the way, that's satire for you.

( pretty scary, huh? )

Don't worry ..... no one is after you, at least no Scientologists
anyway.

Answer 2

www.xenutv.com, its a real eye-opener.

Don't tell them I gave you the link, or they will start following me. Also, never go to Clearwater Florida, its a scientology police state.

Answer 3

I made the mistake about 15 years ago of giving my name to someone and getting a free copy of "Dianetics" (which I never read)... they are STILL sending me stuff, four moves later...

Answer 4

I would imagine that they want your money NOW!!!!

Answer 5

I would like to know too....

Answer 6

wow do they chase you down and kill you?

Answer 7

Ok Yes, Here is the tip of the iceberg, I can find hundreds more if you like...

Pretty Scary, Huh!

In a cry for help Lisa undressed herself after a minor car accident; a hospital admitted her, but scientology came and got her. About 17 days later she was dead.
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/

Not quite what your looking for but this guy killed his mum, as he was clearly insane, but scientology doesn't like psychiatrists so he was never treated until he killed his mother by stabbing her 77 times. He is currently in a mental home.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/JeremyPerkins/

Not all people are so lucky to leave scientology just to be harassed, these people died. (just like the 2 above).
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/
(just scroll down the page for literally dozens of cases)

The Woods were helping others, and as ex-members were sued by scientology, read about it here
http://www.daisy.freeserve.co.uk/bonniewoods.htm

These members were physically assaulted:
http://www.scientology-lies.com/janicehayward.html
http://www.scientology-lies.com/franknotaro1.html

Paulette Cooper left and was harassed for years, they even formed a black PR campaign to destroy paulette utterly as recorded by the courts as Operation FreakOut

"To get P.C incarcerated in a mental institution or jail, or
at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks."
Operation FreakOut, Author: Scientology
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/krasel/cooper/frk.html
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/krasel/cooper/

This person sued scientology as they told her they could cure any ills - so she never went to a doctor, sometime after she died of cancer:
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_rf.html

David Mayo was a top ranking church official and a friend & colleague of Hubbard, who even helped design some of the higher level teachings. When he left, he was harassed to hell, to start with being imprisoned with others for 6 months:

"On August 29, 1982, David Miscavage, and others, acting on the orders of L. Ron Hubbard, kidnapped me and subsequently kept me captive and physically and mentally abused me for six months. During this period, David Miscavage, an officer and director of RTC, told me in the presence of Vicki Aznaran, President of RTC, Mark Yaeger, Commanding Officer, CMO INT of CSI that if I ever escaped, he would personally see to it that the resources of the Church of Scientology would destroy my character and reputation internationally. During that six-month period of captivity, I was forced to run around a tree in the desert in temperatures of up to 110 degrees for 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for 3 months I was under tremendous coercion and duress. I was refused medical and dental treatment (after escaping captivity I lost six teeth and required thousands of dollars of dental work to save the rest of my teeth). I was not permitted to make or receive phone calls and all letters I wrote were read by Scientology security guards. I was often awakened during the night and interrogated (mainly by Jesse Prince). In early February 1983, I was told by Rick Aznaran, Director of Security, RTC, (husband of Vicki Aznaran, President of RTC), to get the idea of leaving out of my head because I would never leave the property alive."
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_dm87.html

"In 1980 I was kept prisoner in the Fort Harrison in Clearwater, Florida. I was kept under guard night and day for about three weeks. Even when I slept there were guards stationed outside my room so that I could not escape. One day I was taken to the airport and told to pick any place out of the state of Florida and to go there and not come back. A guard was sent with me on the plane to make sure I went to Wisconsin and didn't come back.

It took me eighteen months to recover from the worst effects of Scientology. Eighteen months after I was physically out of the organization, I snapped out of the hypnosis spontaneously one night. It was a dramatic experience. I felt like I just "woke up" even though I had been awake. I literally came out of a trance. I knew at once that I had been hypnotized for twelve years and I decided to come to Florida to file a lawsuit against the cult. "
Margery Wakefield
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_mw90.html

They drove this guy out of business while he was still a member because he had been saying the last courses hadn't worked for him:
"Someone in the inner circle must have decided that, since my programming wasn't working, I was a security risk and something had to be done to destroy any possible means I might have to finance an attack against the cult. Two Guardian's Office agents, John Matoon and Karen Kuyper, started a set of rumors and passed them to other cult members. They said I was unethical, violated cult secret data, and crazy. The rumors caused others in the cult to call an investigation of me and my business. Defending myself and running my business at the same time was impossible while trying to keep my head on after the auditing I had received.

The cult rumors caused upset and turmoil in my company, and cult members who worked for me began to leave. Customers mysteriously stopped paying their bills. $60,000 I had extended to fellow cult members was not being paid back to me. Then I found out that letters had been sent to them or they had been called and told not to do business with me. At that time 95% of my customers were cult members. When they would not pay me, I couldn't pay my people and my bills. The next year I had to close a business that had done almost a million dollars gross and earned more than 12% pre-tax net because of the cult's Black PR against me. "
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_lw80.htm

"After I left, and because of the threat it considered my knowledge, Scientology declared me "fair game," and has harassed me pursuant to its fair game policy ever since, Hubbard's "fair game" policy calls for people targeted as "enemies" to be "deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist .... tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."

The organization sued me in 1982 (Scientology v. Armstrong, Los Angeles Superior Court No. C 420158), and I filed a cross-complaint for fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Scientology's suit against me, in which I was represented by another major target of fair game, Boston attorney Michael Flynn, went to trial in 1984 and resulted in the famous and internationally cited decision of Judge Paul G. Breckenridge, Jr. (A)

Scientology continued its fair game operations against Flynn and me until December, 1988 when he and the organization arranged a "global settlement," which included the settling of the lawsuits of his approximately fifteen anti-Scientology litigant clients, payments to several witnesses without lawsuits, and settling of his own cases against Scientology."
GERALD ARMSTRONG
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_ga95.html

"Following one of these threatening phone calls, I went to a restaurant/lounge where my brother and friends usually meet, across from my brother's home. I remember ordering a "Tequila Sunrise" while waiting for my brother. I spoke to a man I didn't know who approached me and started a conversation. He left after about ten minutes. I left shortly after that feeling a little strange, the next thing I remember is waking up in a psychiatric ward. My front teeth were knocked out. Apparently, I lost my balance and fell on my face. The doctor told me that the laboratory found amphetamines, thorazine and other drugs in my blood." Anne Rosenblum
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_ar.html

They even harassed Hubbard's ex-wife:
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_sn.html

See here for accounts that scientology has been investigated for:
http://www.scientology-lies.com/investigation.html
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/

See here for court trials
http://www.clambake.org/archive/CourtFiles/

Oh and to be sure that South Park is true (the satire to which ThetaAlways is alluding) here is the first page of OT III in Hubbards own handwriting as confirmed by the Church's lawyers.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/OTIII-scholar/

Here is more on Scientology's Fair Game.
http://www.suppressiveperson.org/fair_game/links.html

While scientology claim this order was cancelled, it wasn't, just refering to it as Fair Game is cancelled, it is still an order to carry it out.
http://www.xenu.net/fairgame-e.html

Or see ex-scientologists speak about their experiences here:
http://www.xenutv.com/interviews/index.html