Ghostbands occure for two reasons:
a) the energy parameters are not set properly. This means most of the time that the wien2k-defaults for your system (mainly due to the required RMT values or due to a particular charge transfer) are not good. In most cases it comes because for ONE atoms there are 2 expansion energies for the same "l", and these energies are too close. b) The sphere sizes are too different. This happens in particular when a cation (like your Na or Ca) has too large spheres compared to H, O, B. Often such ghostbands appear for (partly) converged calculations.
Reference: http://www.mail-archive.com/wien%40zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg09842.html
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