The eerie white mask is unmistakable. Most of us recognize it as the Michael Myers getup from “Halloween” — but to the Highland Hills kids, it’s a telltale sign that it’s time for trick-or-treating. “Every year, my wife hands out the candy, and I walk up behind the kids and scare them,” says Ed Waters, the man behind the mask. In 1993, he dressed up as Michael Myers for a Lake Highlands Elementary Halloween party, and the kids loved it. Fifteen years later, he’s a neighborhood legend. “There was one year I had surgery so I didn’t dress up, and all the kids were asking where Michael Myers was. It makes me feel good to know the kids enjoy it. I wouldn’t do it if they didn’t.” If you go through Highland Hills this year, keep an eye out Waters — he’ll be the 6-foot-2-inch guy wandering around with a white mask. And his house? That’d be the one blaring the theme music from “Halloween”, of course. “But don’t come unless you’re want to get scared — that’s what Halloween is all about after all.” –Marlena Chavira-Medford
