Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first wind phone was built in 2010 in Otsuchi, Japan. Matthew Komatsu/Wikimedia Commons My mother died in my home in hospice ...

A wind phone is a disconnected telephone installed in a serene spot in nature to give those who are mourning the opportunity ...

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 ...

Public telephones have become something of a rare sight around the world, with smartphones having replaced a lot of traditional essentials. The wind phone, while it has a strikingly similar appearance ...

A wind phone isn’t a regular phone there’s no dial tone, no one on the line. Yet it offers a powerful way to grieve and process loss. The first wind phone was created in 2010 by Japanese garden ...

A Rhode Island woman is turning her personal loss into a source of comfort for others. (NBC 10 WJAR) A Rhode Island woman is ...

KENT CITY, Michigan — Invisible, yet powerful. The wind is a lot like grief. Standing at the Howard Christiansen Nature Center in Kent City, Michigan, in late winter, Tracey Mayeda knows both. "I had ...

MUSKEGON, MI - A British-style wind phone has been installed on the shore of Muskegon Lake, offering a place for visitors to have one-way conversations with deceased loved ones. The wind phone was ...

A Bridgeport woman has a found a way to deal with grief, one phone call at a time. Lynda Shannon Bluestein has brought a wind phone to the Ridgebury Congregational Church in Ridgefield. The concept ...

WICKENBURG, Ariz. — There is a phone in Wickenburg that will never ring. It is a payphone that requires no payment — no number of nickels or dimes will ever make it work again — but people still use ...

So-called wind phones are set to appear at various locations in Dorset as part of an initiative to help people express ...