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!
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning
others believed things like this
- I used to think that thunder was god bowling. My sister told me that.— Eli
- My mother always told me that thunder came from clouds colliding with each other.— Martijn
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY
- I think thunder is the clouds fighting and bashing eachother and lightning is fire balls from the sun.— Crazy Cowgirl MADI
- I used to belief sloths lived in trees outside my childhood home. My older sister told me so.Anon
- My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.