When I was in kindergarten and went to a country one room school we had an electic pole at the edge of the yard. We would put our ears to the pole and "hear" the humming. We thought we could hear the people in Hell talking! LOL
My cousin told me one time as we were going to sleep during a thunderstorm that there was an old man with a frying pan in the center of a tornado and he would come through and scoop kids up in his pan and fry them and eat them. I believed her at the time!! We were about 8 or 9.