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In July 2022, a photograph supposedly showing a sand formation on a beach after it was struck by lightning was posted by the Curiosity Twitter account @sciencenature14. The photo was captioned: When Lighting hits a sandy beach, it creates otherworldly glass sculptures known as fulgurites or petrified lightning. As noted by @picpedant, the above-displayed photograph does not show fulgurites or petrified lightning. This is actually a sand sculpture created by Matthew Kaliner, or Sand Castle Matt, a popular sand sculpture artist. Kaliner originally shared the picture to his Flickr account in 2007. And the sculpture is actually part of a larger sculpture. Here's a photograph of Way's entire sand sculpture that was built on Red Beach in Puerto Rico. Kaliner's work has gone viral before. In 2014, the contemporary art website This is Colossal published an article about these unusual sculptures, writing: According to Scientific American, people have been claiming that Kaliner's sand sculpture actually shows what happens when lightning strikes sand since at least 2013. While the above-displayed pictures were created by an artist, not lightning, fulgurites and petrified lighting really do exist. Scientific American writes: Here's a photograph of some petrified lightning that was taken by the National Parks Service: NPS writes:
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