My brother once told me that lightning was the headlights of the 'batmobile' and thunder was those afterburner thingy also on the 'batmobile'.
Holy smokes Batman, it's raining out here...
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- I used to belive that if you pushed the lighter button in a car it would tranforme it into a batmobile Anon
- My Grama always told me that thunder was just God bowling and the lightning was when he got a strike!— Kim
- I used to believe that people could fly during thunder and lightning, because I dreamt this once— Minimania
- I was convinced that thunder and lightning could wake up volcanos.— leticia
- i used to believe that when there was thunder and lightning god was playing bowling at a disco— georgia
- Lightning and thunder were produced at the garbage dump.— penny