“I have just received a rather strange telephone call from my mother in law, who lives at Blyton, just outside Gainsborough.

She told me that this afternoon, she looked out of her living room window and saw a large, "Old type" of aeroplane flying extremely low over where she lives. She said she went out of her front door to have a better look as it was flying so low, she feared it would crash into the house opposite hers.

It apparently had absolutely no sound coming from it and flew in the direction of a lane known as "Sands Lane" or possibly "Sand Beck Lane".

I know of one that came down at a place called "The Jenny Wren Pumping Station", not far from Blyton and along the river Trent.

The second sighting came from a man my partner works with and is in his mid 30's and has no hearing difficulties whatsoever.

All I have found out is that the planes stationed in this area of bomber type were the Halifax, Wellington and Lancaster. The crash victims recovered from the Trent were indeed those of Polish airmen and apparently so I am told, were in an aircraft that clipped a tree and then crashed into the river.

According to my peers, that tree has never grown properly since and the location is that of a pumping station known as "The Jenny Hurne" which is on the east side between East Stockwith and East Ferry.

I also have been told of one at Byton Carr, which is approx. 1/2 a mile on the Gainsborough side of Blyton, but have no other info on this.” JS Martin Replies...

I found out that a during WW2 it was Heavy Bomber station, for whatever reason many crashes with Heavy Bombers strewn around the fields close to the airfield. In the war, pilots stationed there disliked the station, since it was filled with a bad atmosphere. For many years the surrounding fields were haunted by a phantom airman. A farmhouse nearby for some reason was the epicentre for the sightings.

In 1967 the remains of a bomber fuselage with five Polish airmen's bodies were recovered from the River Trent. Apparently it was this crash that caused the haunting.

Depending on what your mother saw - a heavy bomber/spitfire etc this could offer an explanation - maybe it was a ghost of the Heavy Bomber?