As an adult, you probably don’t believe in Santa Claus anymore, but if anything can restore your faith in the jolly fat man in the red suit, this is the video to do it.
Robert Riley was doing some shopping with his two daughters at the Walmart in Hurricane, West Virginia. One of his daughters, 3-year-old Sophie Jo Riley, noticed a man nearby with a white beard and an uncanny resemblance to Santa Claus. Her father encouraged her to talk to him, and her older sister caught the whole thing on video.
“She was just sneaking around the aisle, had her back against the toys,” her older sister Miya Lupashunski told WSAZ. “We were behind her, and she’d put her finger up to her lips and go ‘Shh! It’s Santa!’”
The little girl got up her courage and walked over to him.
“Santa?” Sophie asks as she approaches him. “I’ve been called worse,” he replied.
She happily talked to the man, showing him her nails and then telling him about the cookies that would be waiting for him at her house. After telling him only to eat one and leave the rest for the reindeer, she realizes the reindeer may prefer grass.
“They do, but up in the North Pole, the grass is pretty hard to come by,” Larck assures Sophie.
The entire conversation warmed everyone’s hearts, and even if you don’t believe in Santa, the video will make you believe in the good in the world.
“I’m tickled I’ve been a part of something that other people have enjoyed,” Larck said. “It was just me having a conversation with a little girl. It melted my heart when it happened.”
“It’s real, it’s pure,” Robert says about his daughter’s encounter with “Santa.” “It’s innocence. It’s Christmas.”
Watch the “magical” video and see what you think!
