The phenomenon of ball lightning
A rarely seen supernatural form of lightning, a bright blue burning and arcing ball of fire that floats up in the air or levitates or rolls down a wall seemingly of its own accord
A church in England was struck by a terrible apparition of ball lightning during a mighty thunderstorm that occurred on Sunday during the church service. Four churchgoers were killed and many suffered severe burns.
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Drunken legends of deviltry, card-playing and gambling abounded after the event of that great thunderstorm in a British church. What would have been preached that Sunday?
To fall asleep in church, "I fall asleep in Jesus' wounds." And Jesus' rebuke to Peter at that is so gentle, and His love is so great, "What, could ye not watch with me one hour?" To say the devil took the souls of the ones struck by lightning, was salvation preached in that church or only heavy law sermons far too grievous to be borne?
Or is that wiki article an unjust Catholic condemnation of a Protestant church, and not entirely truthful at that? Neither the church nor any of the churchgoers really ought to be judged by rumors told at local bar or tavern. That is a rather ill repute to this day hundreds of years later.