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Results released in girl's request for DNA evidence of Santa

No complete matches were found in the Combined DNA Index System, but there was a partial match "to a 1947 case centred around 34th St. in New York."

The Rhode Island Department of Health tweeted that "we all agree that something magical may be at play."
The Rhode Island Department of Health tweeted that "we all agree that something magical may be at play." Photo by Liam Richards /Saskatoon StarPhoenix

The Rhode Island Department of Health says it was not able “to definitively confirm or refute the presence of Santa” in a young girl’s home after she requested to have a partially eaten cookie and a couple of gnawed-on carrot sticks tested for DNA to see if Santa Claus is real.

The department tweeted that “we all agree that something magical may be at play.”

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The department said it found no complete matches to anyone in the Combined DNA Index System but said there was a partial match “to a 1947 case centred around 34th St. in New York City,” referring to the movie Miracle on 34th Street. It said it would need more DNA samples “from other known Santa encounters to make a definitive match.”

The “good news” is that the lab did find the presence of DNA closely matching Rangifer tarandus, known as reindeer, when testing the carrots, the department said.

The girl, a Cumberland resident, had sent the cookie and carrot sticks to the town’s police department to ask if they can be tested for DNA, Chief Matthew Benson said on Friday. Benson forwarded the “evidence” to the state’s Department of Health-Forensic Sciences unit for analysis.