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CUMBERLAND, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island Division of Well being says it was not in a position “to definitively affirm or refute the presence of Santa” in a younger lady’s residence after she requested to have a partially eaten cookie and a few gnawed-on carrot sticks examined for DNA to see if Santa Claus is actual.
The division tweeted on Monday that “all of us agree that one thing magical could also be at play.”
The division stated it discovered no full matches to anybody within the Mixed DNA Index System however stated there was a partial match “to a 1947 case centered round thirty fourth Avenue in New York Metropolis,” referring to the film “Miracle on thirty fourth Avenue.” It stated it will want extra DNA samples “from different recognized Santa encounters to make a definitive match.”
The “excellent news” is that the lab did discover the presence of DNA carefully matching Rangifer tarandus, generally known as reindeer, when testing the carrots, the division stated.
The lady, a Cumberland resident, had despatched the cookie and carrot sticks to the city’s police division to ask if they are often examined for DNA, Chief Matthew Benson stated on Friday. Benson forwarded the “proof” to the state’s Division of Well being-Forensic Sciences unit for evaluation.