RAF Metheringham was a wartime bomber station in Lincolnshire, home to 106 Squadron during the latter years of the Second World War. The base launched nightly raids over occupied Europe, and many of the young crews who took off from its runways never returned. The airfield was decommissioned after the war and largely returned to farmland, but the spirits of those who served there are said to linger.
The most famous ghost of RAF Metheringham is Catherine Bystock, a WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) member who is said to have died in a road accident near the base during the war. Her ghost — a young woman in wartime uniform — has been seen standing at the roadside near the former airfield entrance, sometimes attempting to flag down passing vehicles. Drivers who have stopped have found no one there when they pulled over.
Other phenomena reported at the site include the sound of heavy aircraft engines overhead on clear, still nights when no planes are present — a phenomenon common to many former Lincolnshire bomber bases. Local residents have seen lights moving across the former runway area, and a tall, dark figure in flying gear has been reported walking along the perimeter track. One particularly striking account involved a motorist who reported picking up a young woman in WAAF uniform on the road near the base. She sat in the passenger seat and gave directions before simply vanishing from the moving car. The site retains a small memorial to the aircrews who served there, and the surrounding countryside — flat, open, and windswept — maintains an atmosphere that visitors frequently describe as heavy with unresolved grief.