in that special place"This is the main line of the letter that James recieves from his presumably dead wife.

One is remarkably passive/ aggressive, one is suicidal, one is a little girl who seems to know him, and one of them is a woman who looks just like his dead wife, which brings out some conflicting emotions in James

His wife died three years ago.

The game starts with James revealing that he recently recieved a letter from his dead wife asking him to come and visit her in Silent Hill

Trouble is, James's wife has been dead for three years.