I wanted to write you because my friend and I visited TICO this past Sunday (Oct. 8, 2006). She really wanted to see it, so I took her there because I remembered where it was. To my amazement TICO (the huuuuge building) was completely gone! There was no wooden TICO sign, no stone TICO sign, no building, no nothing...it was so creepy, and we visited both during the night and in the day (night time was much creepier and we didn't even make it all the way back to the cemetery).

I was very sad to see TICO had been demolished (I wanted to explore it a little bit) and I have no idea when or why it happened. I am attatching some photos that I took so you can see. I am thinking they demolished it quite a bit ago because grass had already grown back on the site.

Also, on your site you talk about two specimen's graves, but the first time and this 2nd time I went there I only saw ONE specimens grave. I even went up and down every single row looking for the 2nd one and I could not find it. I have no idea if something happened to it or what, but there was only one when I went back.

I just wanted to write and let you know a couple of things about the State of Ohio Asylum for the Insane Cemetery. I recently stumbled upon the letter you received from Renee and wanted to let you know that even when my friend and I visited the cemetery in January of 2004, we were unable to locate more than one "specimen" stone, so I think that the second one has been missing for some time. That or my friend and I are more inept than we think. :-)

Also, I noticed that on the other three cemeteries you had put up warnings about getting permission to visit beforehand, but not on this one. My friend and I actually got the chance to visit this cemetery twice, but on our second visit we had been there about fifteen minutes when one of the security guards spotted us while driving around to do his patrolling. It was during the day, probably around three or four. He stopped to talk to us and asked if we had received permission to be there, which we hadn't (we didn't really know how to at the time), so he made sure we left. He even followed us back out to Broad Street just to make sure we didn't just turn around and come back. Of all the other stories I've read of people visiting, I've never seen anyone else get caught, so I just thought you might want to add a little word of caution to that page too. I would think now that the building has been torn down, visitors to this fabulous spot are even more obvious, sadly.

My name is Dan, and I am from Cincinnati, Ohio. I was looking for info on TICO and Buckeye, and came across your page. I was in Buckeye Youth Center for a couple of years, which was at 2280 West Broad Street. It was formerly a hospital, then turned into a youth jail. We would go to TICO to get hair cuts and such when I was younger. TICO was a place for very bad kids. Kids that were pretty much going to be sent to adult reformatories. It was said back in the day that the graveyard was also for kids that were killed in the facility, or kids that had attempted to escape and died on the razor wire and had no real family that would come to claim them. Instead of shipping the bodies back to their home counties, they would bury them there. I remember there was a very old set of buildings that were on the other side of the fence from Buckeye, and they were part of the asylum. I remeber when they knocked them down...so many rats and things would come running toward the fence at us. Very weird. A lot of very bad stuff had happened in Buckeye and TICO, and there was another building on the property called TCY (Training Camp for Youths). We would only see these people on Sundays for church, but TCY had kids that had gender problems, as in boys that thought they were girls. Then there was a building called Cardinal Hall which was for kids who broke parole and had to return for about 6 months. It was like a military style program. Anyways, I had returned to this place around 2000 or so, and I think and everyting was gone and an officer also chased me off. OK, thought I would give my bit of info to ya.