In the 2003 movie Elf, Will Ferrell plays Buddy Hobbs, a human adopted by elves and raised in the North Pole. When he leaves home and heads to New York as a 30-year-old, his staunch belief that Santa ...

Now listen here. Nobody is saying that Santa Claus isn’t real. According to recent polls, a full half of the country’s children — and even a good portion of adults — believe in the jolly one. We ...

Santa Claus is alive and well and living in Finland. The so-called “happiest” country on earth has a magical tradition that lifts spirits all over the world — a post office where wishful letter ...

The problem with Santa Claus is several-fold: First, it might foster the development of what later in life is called “magical thinking” which is a potentially serious cognitive distortion that many ...

Sure, it's a family story they can chuckle about NOW. But Lisa Highfill wasn't laughing that December day almost 20 years ago. She had just parked the car in the garage when her then-8-year-old son ...