RAF Coleby Grange operated as a night-fighter station during the Second World War, one of the many airfields scattered across Lincolnshire's flat landscape that earned the county its lasting wartime nickname of Bomber County, and its surviving control tower has since picked up a specific and fairly well-remembered local ghost story of its own. A phantom officer in RAF uniform is said to return briefly to the site around the month of May each year, a timing local tradition frames not as random but as deliberate, an expression of ongoing regret for the young men he once sent out on operations who never came home.
The control tower itself carries a second, quite different strand of activity, considerably more physical and disruptive than the officer's quiet annual return. Reports describe footsteps and crashing sounds echoing through the building, alongside stones and broken glass apparently thrown by an unseen presence, a form of disturbance that sits closer to poltergeist activity than to the more solemn, grief-driven haunting the officer's story suggests.
As with the county's other former fighter and bomber stations, scattered across Lincolnshire in genuinely large numbers from the war years, the officer himself is never named in any material available, and the story functions as much as a piece of general Bomber County folklore, one more entry in a whole regional tradition of wartime airfield ghosts, as it does a documented individual case with a name and a service record behind it.
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