Myth

“It came from a toy store or a thrift store.”

Wrong
Correction

A magic and novelty shop on Hollywood Boulevard.

Carpenter names "Bert Wheeler's magic shop on Hollywood Boulevard, which was right up the street from our offices." Wallace called it "this large novelty shop" on the Boulevard. Shatner's "they found it somewhere in a toy store or somewhere" is his retelling, not an account.

Sources 123

What people actually said
“So the art director went up to Bert Wheeler's magic shop on Hollywood Boulevard, which was right up the street from our offices, and he got two masks.”
The Hollywood Reporter — 20151

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Sources on this page
  1. first-hand · 2015
    John Carpenter Speaks: 'Halloween' Secrets, Plagiarism Case Against Luc Besson — The Hollywood Reporter ↗
  2. first-hand · 2016-03
    Waffling With... Halloween 3 & IT director Tommy Lee Wallace (Part 1) — The Movie Waffler — Eric Hillis ↗
  3. secondary · 2018-11-15
    'Halloween': William Shatner Claims He Used to Trick or Treat Wearing Michael Myers Mask — ComicBook.com (quoting Entertainment Weekly) — Patrick Cavanaugh ↗

Grades: Established multiple independent sources incl. first-hand or documentary evidence · Reported one credible source or the filmmakers’ standard retelling · Disputed the people involved contradict each other · Myth widely repeated, no source, contradicted by first-hand accounts.