LOVED this site! My Mom used to set up our plastic bowling pin set in the long hallway in our house when it was storming, and when we heard thunder it was because an angel had bowled a strike! Years later I learned she did it because she was frightened by storms.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning
others believed things like this
- 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
- When I was little my dad told me when ever it thundered it was my Grandma bowling a strike.Anon
- My grandmother used to tell me that thunder was the angels bowling.— laf
- 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.