One time wheen I was a kid, I farted so loudly that my mother said, "Gee, did I hear thunder?". It seems like years thereafter that I actually thought that thunder was caused by somebody somewhere farting very loudly!
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- I think lightning and thunder is caused by angels throwing temper tantrums Anon
- My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.
- My mother always told me that thunder came from clouds colliding with each other.— Martijn
- I used to belive that god was bolwing and every time thunder hit god got a stike— Greyhound
- When I was little I thought that thunder was the bricks of our house banging together for some reason.— Ncik
- I always thought thunder was the sound of the crumbling buildings, after lightning had struck them.Anon