When I was little I thought that thunder was the bricks of our house banging together for some reason.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- My mum used to tell me that someone was delivering bricks at the top of our road when it thundered!— Deb
- i believed that thunder and lightning came out of the alley across the street from my house.Anon
- I always thought thunder was the sound of the crumbling buildings, after lightning had struck them.Anon
- when i was younger i thought ac/dc's dirty deeds (done dirt cheap), was dirty knees and the thunder cheeks.— S
- My mum used to tell me that thunder was god re-arranging the furniture.— Dale
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that it would thunder when G-D was moving furniture in the sky.Anon