Psychic Feels "Energy" at Ted Bundy's Old Hangout

The British show Conversation With A Serial Killer was in town this weekend, taping a segment at Dante's, the four-decade-old college bar north of the UW campus on Roosevelt. Producers interviewed owner Zach Peterson and hired an actor to "portray" Bundy, that is, sit on bar stools and look menacing.

Bundy, it's believed, picked up his first victim at the bar in 1974. At least, Dante's is the last place the victim was seen.

The Times' Erik Lacitis witnessed the taping, and reports that psychic Bobby Marchesso felt, well, something:

Marchesso and [freelance journalist Julie] MacDonald walked around the tavern holding minicams. Marchesso took digital photos.

"We felt a lot of energy," said Marchesso.

He replayed the photos in his camera and pointed out an "orb" — an 8-inch diameter, faint, whitish, spherical light — in a series of photos of a couch. It was, he said, not a reflection.

At one point where he said he felt energy, "My body started feeling flush and I started getting nauseous," the psychic said.

Marchesso is certainly not the first person to feel flush and get nauseous at Dante's, though it's usually after four Long Island Iced Teas.

The show, reports Lacitis, will air in Britain in September.