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Find a Grave
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 1 recorded interview · Last updated
The cemetery database John Kiriakou calls literally his favourite website on the internet, which he opens during the ten-minute countdown before broadcasts and uses to decide who goes into his cemetery books, and which supplied him the story of Greta Zimmer Friedman.
Find a Grave is the online cemetery database that John Kiriakou names as his favourite website, and which functions as a research tool for his books.
The habit
Describing what he does while waiting for the ten-minute countdown before a broadcast, Kiriakou said: “I go on what is literally my favorite website on the internet, and that is find agrave.com.”[1]
The working use
It is not idle browsing. “I use find a grave a lot uh to to help guide the research in my book, right, to decide who to put in the book. And I know most of the people who are important enough to be on Find a Grave as a famous person.”[1]
The claim to know most of them is what makes an exception worth reporting on air. On 8 September 2025 he found one listed as having died on that date whom he did not recognise, described in the entry only as a “pop culture icon”, see Greta Zimmer Friedman.[2]
Why the books exist
Kiriakou closed the segment with the rationale for the whole enterprise: “this is why I write these cemetery books. I mean, the stories that people have are just fascinating to me. I love it.”[3]
He returned to the show’s actual agenda afterwards with a warning that nothing else that day would clear the bar.[3]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
