Coach Mike Kankle

Coach Michael Edward "Mike" Kankle is the true main antagonist of the 2001 television movie When Good Ghouls Go Bad. Kankle is the football coach and Phys. ed. teacher of Walker Falls Junior High who is also running for mayor. He is one responsible Curtis Danko's death and Walker Falls' parnoid fear of Halloween in general.

20 years ago
In Junior High, Kankle and his friends liked to bully Curtis Danko, an outcast kid who was very artistic. On Halloween night, Kankle while walking by the school with friends, saw Curtis, who was given an award by "Uncle" Fred Walker, in the art room finishing the statue of Fred. They used a ladder to get up in to the art room and locked Curtis in a kiln, where he put the statue, as a cruel joke. When a heard a janitor coming into the room, Kankle and the others made their escape not knowing after they left the janitor accidently turned on the kiln. The next day saw the kiln on all day and went in there. When in the kiln Kankle found Curtis dead and the nice statue he made of Fred. Upon realizing he was wrong about Curtis and not wanting a statue of Fred and not his own father was going to be put in town square, Kankle wrote down and made phony a curse that if Walker Falls ever celebrated Halloween again, Curtis would return from the dead and kill them all. Then Kankle covered the statue and throw in his ash in his face and came out of the kiln pretending that his eyes were burning and that he was blind, an act he continued for three days, and said that it was from looking at Curtis' statue. Kankle claims that the statue was evil and then everyone in the art saw the supposed curse. Since then the entire town has become fearful and not celebrated Halloween.

Present
20 years later, Kankle is married and his a son named Ryan, who is also a bully. Kankle is now a physical education teacher at Walker Falls Junior High and coach of the school's football team, as well as stated his own campaign to run for Mayor.