People talk to the dead through this phone booth in Japan

People have different ways of dealing with their grief and while many decide to cry, a town in Japan has decided to talk to the dead through a phone booth. Residents of the Otsuchi town in Japan were hit by natural disasters in 2011 and they now use the phone booth on a hill to talk to their loved ones every time they feel lonely.

According to a report in Travel and Leisure, the phone booth which is just like any other is used by locals and tourists to talk their loved ones as and when they miss them. However, the phone is disconnected which means the person can talk into thin air to deal with their grief. The town was destroyed within 30 minutes had over 10 percent of its population killed in the calamity and had many grieving people.

The phone booth was however installed by a man named Itaru Sasaki who couldn’t get over the death of his cousin and found it hard to use a normal phone and so he built the phone booth to help him come to terms with the death. The eerie phone booth is situated on a grassy hill a few hours away from Tokyo.