When i was little my daycare teacher told me that thunder was clouds bumping into each other. I believed that for a long time.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- My mother always told me that thunder came from clouds colliding with each other.— Martijn
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY
- I think thunder is the clouds fighting and bashing eachother and lightning is fire balls from the sun.— Crazy Cowgirl MADI
- When I was a child, I believed that thunder was God playing on the computer.
— Gabriela - I used to belive that god was bolwing and every time thunder hit god got a stike— Greyhound
- i believed that thunder and lightning came out of the alley across the street from my house.Anon