The Don Jail is perhaps the most haunted building in Toronto, as it was the site of dozens of executions, suicides and murders. When it first opened in 1864, it was considered a Palace for Prisoners, when it closed down in 2013, almost 150 years later, it had fallen into such a wretched state, that persons serving time in the don were credited with three days against their sentence for each day spent in the facility.  In 2003, the Toronto Star reported that the jail reeked of urine and vomit and entering it was like walking into a madhouse from another century. To make matters worse for inmates, the Don is also haunted.  Executions at The Don began in 1908, with the hanging of John Boyd, who was executed for murdering a rival suitor. 26 men were executed at the Don before Canada’s last two hangings took place here in 1962. The most famous ghost to haunt the Don died from hanging, but in her case it was not an execution but a suicide. The Lady of The Don is the ghost of a woman who hung herself in a tiny cell in the west wing, using her bed sheets. An angry and disturbing apparition, the lady wanders the west wing, and the rotunda, forever trapped in time, her blonde hair and white dress billowing in a chill phantom wind.