10 Infamous Occultists With Terrifyingly Creepy Obsessions

6. L. Ron Hubbard - Himself

The following history is completely denounced by the Church of Scientology as false. The leading, Post-Hubbard Scientologists even attempted keep this information quiet for years through lawsuits. Fortunately, thanks to the Internet, we now know the true story behind the life of L. Ron Hubbard. After World War II, hero veteran (or so he claimed) Hubbard washed up on the Californian shore, two steps from being unsuccessfully divorced and one step from being pocket lint broke. He soon came into the company of research scientist Jack Parsons, an occult fanatic in the service of Aleister Crowley, who would eventually blow himself up in a rocket fueled magickal experiment. Parsons was quite taken with his new friend and included Hubbard in many of his Occult rituals, some of which were bizarrely sexual in nature. They continued to be friends up to the point where Hubbard stole all of Parsons' money and his girlfriend. Hubbard's stint in the dark arts was just one notch in his autobiography of self-obsession. His heroism during the war is denied by a perplexed US Navy, About The Author sections of his novels read like monuments to a Catholic Saint, and he became wealthy from a religion he created. The only people who were aware of his true nature at the time were his science fiction contemporaries such as Robert Heinlein, who abhorred his company altogether.