HUGE TREE SHAPED LIGHTNING BOLT - real or fake?

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In the episode of "Real or Fake" we're taking a look at "monster" caught on camera during a hurricane, a photo of a cyclop fish, a white moose, and a picture that claims to show the tallest woman in sports.
The big story this week focuses on a picture sent in by hulkboy66 that claims to show an epic lightning strike in the shape of a tree. Is something like that even possible? Watch on to see if you know "real or fake" when you see it.
More info on Lightning.
Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge that occurs during a thunderstorm. This discharge occurs between electrically charged regions of a cloud (called intra-cloud lightning or IC), between two clouds (CC lightning), or between a cloud and the ground (CG lightning).
The charged regions in the atmosphere temporarily equalize themselves through this discharge referred to as a strike if it hits an object on the ground, and a flash, if it occurs within a cloud. Lightning creates light in the form of black body radiation from the very hot plasma created by the electron flow, and sound in the form of thunder. Lightning may be seen and not heard when it occurs at a distance too great for the sound to carry as far as the light from the strike or flash.
Ground to Cloud Lightning
While most lightning strikes to earth are the cloud-to-ground variety, the vast majority of lightning discharges to tall structures are of the distinctly different 'ground-to-cloud' or 'upward-moving' type (those terms are used interchangeably). Unlike a cloud-to-ground stroke's downward-moving (and downward-branched) stepped leader, a ground-to-cloud lightning discharge initiates as an upward-propagating, upward-branching leader from the tip of the structure skyward into the cloud. To illustrate the difference between cloud-to-ground and ground-to-cloud strokes, we'll examine frame-by-frame part of two video clips as well as simulated animations of both types of lightning strikes.
For a full detailed report on Ground to Cloud, you can visit this site