on the "very freaky because it's scary" front - an organization called the cult awareness network was driven to bankruptcy by the church of scientology
and then a scientology member bought the name and assets at a bankruptcy sale and they now run it. whoa.
on a related note - chris (or was it mike) reminded me that when we were at expo 86 in vancouver as teenagers scientologists tried to recruit us and showed us some film at their spaceship HQ....my memories are vague....i think the film was....amusing.