Ghost Player

Ghost Players were a phenomena which occurred on older versions of Minecraft; Entities which took on the appearance of a player character, but were not controlled by that player. Due to their strange and perhaps unnerving nature, they became the subject of numerous rumors and creepypastas.
==MC-93308==
MC-93308 entities would spawn from players who died while in a Nether Portal. These ghosts can be damaged or killed like any other entity in the game. If killed, the game will send a death message in chat similar to when an actual player dies. If the player kills one of these ghost entities, they will be instantly killed the next time they log into the server.
These entities were first documented by the player knux400https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-93308
==MC-37586==
MC-37586, also reported under the name MC-55401 or MC-55444, was a bug that would sometimes trigger if a player lagged out of a server, timing out from a bad connection. A ghost player would spawn in their place, and stand still. The ghost could take damage as with a normal entity, but this would not affect the actual player. After around a minute, the ghost player would naturally despawn. If allowed to despawn on their own, the server would send a message saying that the player the ghost was duplicating had left the game, even if they were still present in the server.
If killed, the ghost entity would drop its inventory, which allowed items to be easily duplicated.https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-37586?jql=labels%20%3D%20ghost 
MC-41403 was an identical bug that affected LAN worlds instead of servers. There was also a very similar server bug called MC-78469, which had the same effects, except for the fact that the ghost would not take on the appearance of the affected player, instead having no skin.
==Xbox 360 "Clone" Players==
On the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft in around 2013/2014, it was possible to create a Clone of the player character that would follow behind the actual player and mimic their actions. If the clone was hit, the player would take damage. These clones would usually appear if the player was switching between accounts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93IRCJcJao
==MC-147922==
In Minecraft 1.14, sometimes, upon a player joining a LAN world, an MC-147922 Entity could spawn. This entity would appear at the server spawn point and would not copy the player's skin, but would duplicate their username and would send its own "[Player] joined the game" message, and create its own playerdata folder in the world's files. If hit, it would damage the player it was duplicating. These entities could persist even if the player left the game.https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-147922
Some reports say the entities are affected by the player's keypresseshttps://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-190930 while others say this is not the case.
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