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This paper places emphasis on an unknown part of the cemetery audience, the 'Other'. It emerged as an audience category, comprising 26 out of 214 survey participants, in a four-month online audience research regarding two Athenian cemeteries. The basic argument for the scope of this research is that in highly contested public spaces such as the Third and the Anastasis cemetery, which reflect some of the most striking abnormalities of Greece's unequal cemetery system, 'others' are systematically constructed and are not co-included in ordered, face-to-face representation. Thus, we emphasise the digital form of this research as more resourceful when exploring silenced voices and invisible presences. We discuss the integral taxonomies of the 'Other' on the basis of the dialectic character of the place. Finally, in order to negotiate otherness as an identity marker, we focus on the opinions of the 'Other' audience regarding spatial practices, attitudes and emotions related to the space of the dead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]