An amputee outdoes himself every Halloween with incredible one-legged costumes

Josh Sundquist as Groot in this year's Halloween costume.Courtesy of Josh Sundquist

• Josh Sundquist, a motivational speaker and Paralympic athlete, creates costumes that celebrate his physical difference as an amputee.
• Every Halloween, his elaborate costumes go viral.
• This year, he dressed as Groot from Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" movies.
• He hopes his costumes both make people laugh and help them celebrate what makes them different.

Josh Sundquist outdoes himself every year.

After losing his leg to bone cancer as a child, Sundquist went on to become a Paralympic athlete as well as a motivational speaker, performer, bestselling author, and YouTuber. A self-proclaimed Halloween enthusiast, Sundquist is also known for creating "unique Halloween costumes that celebrate the way my body is shaped," he told Insider in 2019.

This year, he dressed as Groot from Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" movies — in particular, when the character appears as a baby at the end of the first film.

Sundquist enlisted the help of props and costume designer Calen Hoffman. The costume took weeks to create.

"It is a very long process," he said. "I feel like I work on Halloween year-round."

For Sundquist, the amusement and inspiration the costumes provide is worth the effort.

"Ultimately the message of the costumes is humor and delight, but if people want to think deeper about them, hopefully there's a story there about embracing what makes you unique and even what makes you different," he said.

"If you were to show younger me the costumes that I make now, he probably would not believe that I would be calling attention to how I look different. Perhaps if there was someone like me out there at that time, and I'd been able to see those photos, maybe it would have helped me become a little more confident in the way I looked a little bit sooner in my journey."

Take a look at Sundquist's history of absolutely crushing Halloween.