--- title: Girl Confuses Man at Walmart for Santa description: Little girl think man in white beard is Santa at a West Virginia Walmart canonical: https://time.com/4154713/girl-walmart-santa/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Dec 18, 2015 3:44 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Dec 18, 2015 3:44 PM UTC ’Tis the season when older men with white beards may get confused for Santa Claus. Robert Riley of Zanesville, Ohio, is making headlines for uploading a video to Facebook from the Walmart in Hurricane, West Virginia that shows his daughter Sophie Jo walking up to a man with a white beard who was wearing a red sweater to see if he was Santa. 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