Cover Image Credits: Facebook/Ben Hartnell

Halloween is a time of the year when people come up with the most out-of-the-box ideas to be original and terrify the wits out of their friends and family. While some choose to decorate their homes in some of the spookiest ways possible, others choose to dress up as their favorite horror movie characters, and then there are some who prefer to binge on popcorn and horror movies. Yes, we know Halloween is easily half a year away but what this high school teacher did deserves to live on forever on the internet for his efforts manage to look extremely funny and unbelievably scary in equal measure.

Ben Hartnell, a teacher from Westerville, Ohio, decided to dress up as Michael Myers from the Halloween movie series to scare the staff and students from his school. What's amazing is Hartnell decided to document his experience as Myers with a photoshoot that is part fun and part creepy. Here's what the teacher had to say about his effort on his Facebook post:" In the scariest addition to the “Halloween” horror movie franchise, Michael Myers... goes to high school."

What appears to look like a harmless charade at the beginning, starts to get darker and darker as the pictures progress!

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The post has since gone viral having received over 4.5k reactions, 2.6k comments, and over 17k shares all over the internet.