My grandmother told my brother and I, that thunder was caused by potatoes falling off of God's potato wagon. This made plenty of sense to me.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- my mum used to tell me that it wasnt the ice cream man it was the potato man selling potatoes.meany!!!!— x[k][t]x
- I used to think that my grandmother was a pioneer from the covered wagon days.— jasonchic
- I use to believe that potato chips were made from potato bugs. — Kayla
- When I was little my big brother told me that if I ate raw potatoes my teeth would grow curly. — Lauren
- I think lightning and thunder is caused by angels throwing temper tantrums Anon
- My grandmother used to tell me that thunder was the angels bowling.— laf