Flat Stanley is Santa and here’s why: Santa doesn’t have an origin story, it could be anything. Could be because he doesn’t want people to know he was crushed by a cork board as a child. How does Santa get from place to place? Reindeers? Yeah, right, in this economy? Flat Stanley can fly undetected. He can get everywhere instantly without the hassle of reindeer. How can Santa get through all those chimneys? It would have to be magic, but magic doesn’t exist so he’d have to look like that already. Who would be able to fit in a chimney? Flat Stanley. We never hear from Flat Stanley any more and this is why. Santa is Flat Stanley