I used to believe that when thunder and lightning struck it was dead people in heaven going ten pin bowling. When my grandfather died (he was an obsessed bowler) I used to think it was him.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- Thunder was my dead uncle in heaven playing a round of bowling with God.— Mike
- I always thought thunder was the sound of the crumbling buildings, after lightning had struck them.Anon
- i used to believe that when there was thunder and lightning god was playing bowling at a disco— georgia
- 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 people could fly during thunder and lightning, because I dreamt this once— Minimania