The Rhode Island Department of Health says it was not able 鈥渢o definitively confirm or refute the presence of Santa鈥� in a young girl鈥檚 home after she requested to have a partially eaten cookie and a couple of gnawed-on carrot sticks

The department 鈥渨e all agree that something magical may be at play.鈥�

The department said it found no complete matches to anyone in the Combined DNA Index System but said there was a partial match 鈥渢o a 1947 case centered around 34th Street in New York City,鈥� referring to the movie 鈥淢iracle on 34th Street.鈥� It said it would need more DNA samples 鈥渇rom other known Santa encounters to make a definitive match.鈥�

The 鈥済ood news鈥� 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鈥檚 police department to ask if they can be tested for DNA, Chief Matthew Benson said on Friday. Benson forwarded the 鈥渆vidence鈥� to the state鈥檚 Department of Health-Forensic Sciences unit for analysis.