Not sure at what this was, but I use to be afraid of thunderstorms. To ease my mind Dad told me God was bowling. The rumbling thunder was the bowling ball going down the lane and the lightning was him getting a strike. If memory servers...God is an outstanding bowler with many 300 games.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- 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 thunder happened when God was bowling. Lightning meant he made a strike!Anon
- i used to believe that when there was thunder and lightning god was playing bowling at a disco— georgia
- When I was little my dad told me when ever it thundered it was my Grandma bowling a strike.Anon
- I used to think that thunder was god bowling. My sister told me that.— Eli
- My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.