The Japanese Telephone Booth Used to Speak to Loved Ones Who Have Passed

In Japan, a disconnected telephone booth became an unexpected space for private grief. The booth, often referred to as the ...
Yahoo

‘Telephone of Wind’ lets people grieving talk to loved ones who passed away through non-wired phones

A tug of a sage gate reveals a beautiful garden. Step further into a courtyard in Millvale and you’ll find a phone booth tucked away in the corner. A Telephone of the Wind, connected to…well, that’s ...
The Oakland Press

Wind phone will allow people to ‘talk’ with their loved ones after their death

Rebecca Manzella, location manager of Resurrection Funeral Home in Clinton Township, has noticed an increase in the number of people interested in personalized and unconventional funerals. Rather than ...
TribLIVE.com

Millvale gallery to feature Telephone of the Wind

It all started with a book. Alisa Whysong and her husband, Todd, lost their daughter Katie to depression in 2021. Grieving had taken them on a few different journeys, including the creation of a ...
KRQE Blogs

What is a ‘wind phone’? Concept helps offer comfort to those grieving lost loved ones

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nestled in a neighborhood in East Nashville, Tennessee, is a phone booth that no longer rings but offers a bit of respite to those grieving a lost loved one. “There are ...
Seven Days

Q&A: At the Lanpher Memorial Library in Hyde Park, a “Wind Phone” Connects Callers With Lost Loved Ones

In 2010, garden designer Itaru Sasaki of Japan installed a telephone booth in his garden that he called a “phone of the wind.” The rotary phone line was not connected to anything, but the booth gave ...
WPLG

‘Wind Phone’ helping grieving families in South Florida reach out to lost loved ones

HILLSBORO BEACH, Fla. — Lost loved ones are just a phone call away, because of a simple idea that is now helping so many people. An old-style red rotary phone sits in a booth not far from the Atlantic ...
The Florida Times-Union

Woods: A rotary phone that isn't connected to anything — yet helps connect to lost loved ones

If you enter Arlington Park Cemetery, take a right and follow the road up and around a curve, there’s a gazebo. And in that gazebo, in a wooden box, there is a tan rotary phone. “I would’ve preferred ...