Agatha Hagglethorn

Agatha Hagglethorn was a human woman.

Biography
Agatha Hagglethorn lived over a century ago in Chicago. She was married to Benson Hagglethorn, and had a daughter with him.

Her husband Benson was abusive and beat her, and Agatha was afraid that he would also harm their child. Once when her infant daughter started crying, the terrified Agatha covered her mouth with her hand so as not to bring her drunk husband's wrath down on the child. When she discovered that she had inadvertently suffocated her daughter, she took an axe and killed her husband Benson with twenty strokes; afterwards she hacked off her own hand, which had killed her family.

Her ghost appeared over a hundred years after her death to haunt the nursery of Cook County Hospital during the events of Grave Peril. Her ghost was tormented by the Nightmare, causing her to replay the suffocation of her daughter with the children in the nursery. Harry Dresden and Michael Carpenter confronted her, followed her into the Nevernever, and