Constance Welch

Constance Welch
Season(s)	1
Species	Human (formerly) Ghost (Woman in White)
Status	Deceased (committed suicide; spirit put to rest)
Family	Joseph Welch (husband) Unnamed son and daughter †
Portrayed by	Sarah Shahi

“	I can never go home.	”
	— Constance Welch

Constance Welch (born 1958-April 23 1981) was a ghost who plagued a highway as a Woman in White. She is the first supernatural enemy the Winchester brothers are faced with in the series.

Early Life

In 1981, twenty-four year old Constance Welch drowned after she jumped off Sylvania Bridge near the Centennial Highway in Jericho, California. An hour previously, she had called 911 and reported that her two children drowned in the bath after she briefly left them unattended. In reality, she went insane and drowned her children after finding out her husband Joseph had been unfaithful.

Season 1

Since her death, she haunted the highway, appearing as a hitchhiker to young men. Constance would beg to be taken home, but once on arrival to an old abandoned house, she'd protest that she could never go home. She would then kill the young men after she tempted them into being unfaithful. Ten men died on the same five mile stretch of highway before Sam and Dean Winchester stopped her.

On the voicemail message John Winchester leaves Dean, there is EVP of Constance saying "I can never go home." When Dean and Sam forced her to enter her old home, the ghosts of her two children appeared. They embraced their mother and her spirit was dragged into the afterlife.

Powers and Abilities

Constance was a strong ghost.

• Electrokinesis - She was able to cause electronics to malfunction, notably causing car radios to turn static.
  • EVP - Her power over technology allowed her to include a message on John's phone call.
• Super Strength - She was able to casually overpower and maul grown men.
• Intangibility' - She could phase her fingers into the chests of humans to cause pain, which she did to Sam, leaving holes in his shirt.
• Telekinesis - She was a capable telekinetic, able to take control of the Impala to chase Sam and Dean and later trapped Sam inside it in an effort to force him to take her home.
• Teleportation - She could move from place to place in the blink of an eye, allowing her to

vanish the moment Sam’s car drove into her and appearing inside it.

• Super Speed - She could move incredibly fast as a flickering, distorted form.
• Invisibility - She could only be seen when she wanted to be.
• Shapeshifting - She was able to change her form from that of a beautiful woman into a decaying corpse.

Weaknesses

• Her children - Being forced to acknowledge her guilt by bringing her home to the ghosts of her children was able to force Constance to rest.

Appearances

• Season 1
  • Pilot
• Season 4
  • The Monster at the End of This Book (mentioned)
• Season 7
  • Slash Fiction (flashback and mentioned)

Trivia

• Constance's misery over her husband's unfaithfulness and her subsequent killing of unfaithful men as a ghost is similar to Isabella.

See also

• Woman in White
• Ghosts