My three brothers used to tell me that thunder was caused by football players up in heaven kicking the ball at the goalposts really hard.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I used to believe that football players really had shoulders that big.— Angie
- I think lightning and thunder is caused by angels throwing temper tantrums Anon
- that when it thunder'd it was angels rolling barrels around heaven.— daniel copeland calif,u.s.
- Thunder was my dead uncle in heaven playing a round of bowling with God.— Mike
- I used to think volleyball was actually called "ball-y ball"Anon
- I used to believe that records were the power source for record players.— bob