00:00This is the real Michael Myers. Not a supernatural monster, but a neglected child.
00:04In Haddonfield, 1963, Halloween was the most anticipated night of the year.
00:10Stores overflowed with masks, mothers stitched costumes, and children compared who they would
00:15become. But in the Myers household, there was no magic. His father drank, his mother hadn't
00:20cooked in days, and Michael sat on the porch watching others run past in bright disguises.
00:25He asked for a costume. They laughed and told him to use whatever he had. In the shed,
00:29he found a broken mask and cut it to fit his face. He wrapped himself in torn sheets and
00:34carried the only thing left on the kitchen counter, a knife. He only wanted to look like the others,
00:39just once to belong. But when he stepped into the street, no one cheered. No one offered candy.
00:44To them, he was only a strange, silent boy in a crooked mask. They turned away. That night,
00:50he went back inside. Upstairs, his sister was dressing for a party, mocking him, laughing,
00:54calling him pathetic. Michael lingered in the doorway, mask on, knife in hand. For a moment,
01:00he wanted her to stop. For a moment, he wanted to be seen. By morning, she was dead, and the boy
01:05who only wanted a costume was gone. Michael Myers was not born evil. He was a child who asked for a
01:11costume, and the world handed him only the mask he never took off.
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