Station welcomes boos

For radio workers, ghostly footsteps, voices and whistling are all part of the job

Too bad “The X Files” is off the air – Fort Worth radio station KFWR (95.9 FM) could have served as inspiration for an episode.

“I’ve seen more intrigued people come here, probably more than Fox Mulder ever did in his job,” said station promoter Gabriel Arreguin, referring to the lead character of the popular 1990s sci-fi show.

That’s because the downtown country radio station is housed in a roughly century-old building that people say is haunted.

Ghost hunters and reporters have flocked to the station over the years to cover the inexplicable sounds of phantom footsteps, strange voices and even whistling.

A woman in white has even been seen near the corner of a staircase inside the three-story building.

“It happened so fast, I didn’t realize what was going on,” said DJ Jenna Lee Savage. “Ghost hunters came here later and they were talking and said there is a lady that wanders up and down the staircase.”

No one knows who the ghosts are – or were – but the station believes in the sprits enough that it has compiled info on the ghosts on its Web site and even produced a pamphlet explaining the scary lore.

“This building is supposedly the site of a suicide in the 1940s, or perhaps a murder, or even multiple murders,” the pamphlet says. “For many years now, stories have gathered about two ghosts that still walk the building.”

Employees say control-room buttons have moved mysteriously. Arreguin, who’s become a tour guide of sorts for ghost seekers, said new lights were installed in the station’s basement – and the bulbs flickered and some even burst.

“For a while, we would go through an entire box of light bulbs every week,” Arreguin said. “Ghosts just don’t like change.”