My mind says it's fantasy, but my nerves seem to disagree

China's version of Halloween is celebrated on Thursday. During the Zhongyuan Festival (Ghost Festival), people burn paper money as sacrifices to please the spirits.

In some places, they float lotus-shaped paper lanterns on water.

The afterlife seems much more a part of everyday life in China than in the West. There, the existence of spirits, or ghosts, is debated, and even few believers would accept ghosts' presence around us as a commonplace reality.