Thanks to John Robert Colombo's new book, Mysteries of Ontario, we learned that a Mexican/Texan desperado may haunt Middlesex County Jail (now a museum).
Marion "Peg Leg" Brown was convicted of murdering a London police officer and was executed in the jail in May of 1899 by hanging.
Aside from the legend that grass refused to grow over his former gravesite in the yard (now a parking lot and Peg Leg's remains now rest in St. Paul's Anglican Churchyard,) Peg Leg Brown's ghost is now said to haunt the cells of the old jail.
Peg Leg's wooden leg and Stetson hat is on display at the Lawson Museum.
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