i used to believe that god was having a wee when it rained and the thunder was the chain was being flushed also i thaught lightning was god throwing angles from the sky so fast they turned blue and you could not see them

liam hope

I always thought thunder was the sound of the crumbling buildings, after lightning had struck them.

Anon

My mom once told me that storms were actually Heaven's worst boy bands that thought they were good enough to play music.

Nai

My mother always complained about the rain ruinning the pavimented roads and making holes in them. The idea that the water could make the holes sounded ridiculous, so I believed that when the thunders fell to the road, they made the holes.

Also, thats why I was very afraid when I was caught outside in a thunderstorm, regardless if I was in a car or in a building, the only place that was safe was my house.

Anon

When I was little and it would thunder. My grandma would say it was angel in heaven bowling. If it was lighting it was a spare and thunder was a strike.

Andrea

Every time it thundered and rained I used to believe that God was passing wind and "peeing"!

Anon

i used to beleive that in a bad thunder storm, the thunder was the sound of nearby buildings crashing to the ground after being hit by lightning. I would just wait for it to hit and destroy our building, but after the storm ended, and I had a chance to servey the neighborhood, all the buildings seemed to be ok. So where did that big crashing sound come from?

B McLean

I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.

Cyn

I was told as a kid that when it thundered, God was playing basket ball. LOL!

Tony

I used to think thunder was caused by clouds banging into each other. (I'm still not absolutely sure this isn't true!) I also believed that the wind was caused by the trees waving their branches around--and am amazed to see how many other people believed the same thing!

Ronne

My parents always told my older sister and I that thunder was just the clouds bumping into one another. So, when my sister was in her Secondary School Science class and the teacher asks the question on what causes thunder....my sisters hand shoots in the air and declares its when they bump into each other! You can imagine that she's never lived it down since!

Piglet

when i was young, i jumped at the sound of thunder. my mom calmed me down by telling me that the clouds were bumping into eachother, and hugging

sean

When we were younger, my brother and i thought that thunder was when god was counting all of the sins that we from the last thunder storm. So, at every thunder storm, we would count the number of thunders there were, and we figured that was the amount of sins that we did.

kelsey

I used to be terrified of thunderstorms when I was a child. Then one night one of my moms good friends came over to babysit. There are one heckuva thunderstorm. She noticed I was scared and told me that thunder was angels clapping and lighting was God shining his flash light. It worked; I was never again afraid of a t-storm.

Cindy

My dad listens to rock, so he used to tell me that when it thundered, it was God bowling against the sinners. You know, like the song. Angels and sinners play every day, every night. To this day I don't understand the true meaning of that song.

Leanna

My mom would always tell me that when it thunder and lightening God and the angels were bowling and that when the lightening hit God had made a strike. Later in life I told my children this and it helped them not to be afraid of a thunder and lightening storm.

Donna

my dad used to tell me that when it thundered it meant that god was really angry and was throwing a temper tantrum.

anna k

also me and my friend once were at school aged about 5 and it was thunder andd lightning. and i remember us asking the teacher if the thunder was god using his hoover and microwave or if he was angry

Anon

Thunder was the angels shaking their blankets out. Rain was the fairies crying.

wolfie

I used to think thunder sounds were called "Boombies" and I would say
"Boombies!" if I heard lightning.

James the Great