The old building on Siler Road on the south side of Santa Fe, New Mexico, sits in an industrial area. It's housed a printer's shop and a line of small businesses - it's also home to something destructive.
Sally Blakemore rented a space in a newly built addition in the upper reaches of the building when she discovered something was wrong.
"I was a member of a large 10-person marimba band that plays 1,000-year-old Shona music from Zimbabwe at the time," she said. "This music traditionally was channeled to the African people and they interpreted it through singing. It is used to contact the ancestors for ancestor worship rituals in Africa. We just play it for fun."
The band members stored their instruments in Blakemore's studio and, during a rehearsal one night, something let the band know it didn't want them there.
"As we played, the water dispenser in the studio, which had just been filled, literally exploded off its stand," Blakemore said. "It was the kind of dispenser where the plastic bottle fits upside down into the holder and a spigot for filling up your glass."
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