In the first series there are “blood men” — aka zombies aka men/robbers who have been killed and “paper men” — like the tomb guardians in the reboot. Although I can’t remember what animates the paper men. I just let it go. It may have been tomb bugs, which look more like horseshoe crabs in the first series.

Whatever, it’s not magic, that’s for sure! Oh, I finished up a Chinese police procedural last night, and there was an episode set in a “haunted” hotel, and one character says, when asked if he believes in ghosts, “We are police officers and party members! We don’t believe in ghosts!” -_-