Every year, NORAD receives thousands of calls from children worldwide asking about Santa Claus's location. This tradition began accidentally in 1955 when a child called the Continental Air Defense Command, now NORAD, thinking it was Santa's hotline. A Colonel answered the call and, realizing the child's misunderstanding, began the tradition of tracking Santa.
Each year, at least 100,000 kids worldwide call the North American Aerospace Defense Command to inquire about Santa’s location.has become nearly global in scope: Children from around the world track Santa Claus as he sweeps across the earth, delivering presents and defying time.
It started with a child’s accidental phone call in 1955. The Colorado Springs newspaper printed a Sears advertisement that encouraged children to call Santa, listing a phone number. Realizing an explanation would be lost on the youngster, Shoup summoned a deep, jolly voice and replied, “Ho, ho, ho! Yes, I am Santa Claus. Have you been a good boy?”
In 2014, tech news site Gizmodo cited an International News Service story from Dec. 1, 1955, about a child’s call to Shoup. Published in the Pasadena Independent, the article said the child reversed two digits in the Sears number. Phone calls aside, Shoup was indeed media savvy. In 1986, he told the Scripps Howard News Service that he recognized an opportunity when a staff member drew Santa on the glass map in 1955.
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