Kid Dying In Santa’s Arms Story Was Bullshit

If you spend any time per day scrolling through shitty click bait articles on Facebook because you hate yourself, you no doubt came across a story titled something like “Terminally Ill Boy Dies in Santa’s Arms.” So many questions abounded based on the headline. Why was such an ill boy at the mall and not in the hospital? Did Santa kill him? Why do kids even like Santa, he breaks into your house. As the narrative of the story goes, a Knoxville Santa got a call from a sick kid’s mom and the mom gave him a present to give to the kid. Santa then went up to visit the kid and had an extremely hokey conversation with him. As Santa explained to the Knoxville News Sentinel: 

“I sat down on his bed and asked, ‘Say, what’s this I hear about you’re gonna miss Christmas? There’s no way you can miss Christmas. Why, you’re my Number One elf!”

He has cancer, leave him alone. In the story, the Sentinel broke a major bombshell and announced that Santa isn’t real, and he’s in fact a mechanical engineer named Eric Schmitt-Matzen. When reporting on this story, the Sentinel never verified any of Santa’s story, and Santa refused to provide the name of the boy. The Sentinel apparently still believes in Santa as an omnipotent being, because they never made any effort to check if this story has any semblance of truth. As it turns out, nobody can verify it. Schmitt-Matzen is sticking by his story. It sounds way too sappy to be true, and he was most likely looking to up his booking rate.

The world is really going to hell, you can’t even trust Santa anymore. People will always choose to believe what they read in published print, no matter the source. Not because they’re dumb, but because they’re lazy. It’s not so bad. That’s how we got the TV remote invented. 

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