Not really haunted, but it is now late October after all so the term was bound to come up. It seems to refer these six AM channels, set aside for hundreds of little stations to do low-watt local broadcasts, as being "crowded together as a graveyard." Anyway, an article at The SWLing Post pointed to this article over at Radio World about these – and I hate to say it – legacy stations. There's also a pretty cool zoomable & clickable locator map here for you to scope out your local area.
Best I could dig up here on the northern Gulf coast was WTAN 1340 out of Clearwater. You can see its yellowish broadcast pattern fanning out northwest from the Tampa Bay area in the figure below. A straight shot over salt water makes for decent daytime listening; a little static-y here in downtown Apalach, but perfectly listenable on my drive between Eastpoint and Carrabelle today. I'll bet it'd be crystal clear on a good radio out on St. George Island or parts nearby.
The only other graveyard station I've regularly listened to was WGCN 1240, "Home of the Biloxi Shuckers" minor league baseball team. But that was when I lived over that way.
Anyway, interesting stuff abounds when you go looking in the obscure corners of the real world.
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