When I was younger, my grandparents told me that when you hear thunder, it's because the Angels in heaven are bowling. So, after my aunt died, I always thought she was bowling when a there was a thunderstorm. It's a cute story that I will surely pass down to my children.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning
others believed things like this
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY
- My grandmother used to tell me that thunder was the angels bowling.— laf
- Thunder was my dead uncle in heaven playing a round of bowling with God.— Mike
- 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.
- My Grama always told me that thunder was just God bowling and the lightning was when he got a strike!— Kim