Why does a cemetery in a Rocky Mountain ghost town have a new landline?
13-08-2026 14:00 via cbc.ca

Why does a cemetery in a Rocky Mountain ghost town have a new landline?

At Mountain Park Cemetery in Alberta's foothills, a one-way rotary phone connects the living to the dead through the wind. The cemetery is the last thing left of the old mining town, telling the stories of frontier hardship through the many restored gravestones that lie there.
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