The Crappy Thing

Hello, my name is Andy, I would like to tell you something that happened to me a few years ago, two, to be more specific. So, I was nine years old, I was a happy child, I had a lot of friends and I loved playing minecraft, for some reason, I always liked that game,   infinite blocks, infinite possibilities. One day, I was playing in survival mode, I had just built a simple wooden house; Then I noticed that I had no torches, so I went out with my pick to mine some coal. When I returned to my house, I noticed that the door was gone, along with my bed and a crafting table. I found it strange, I didn't remember any mob that did that. So I just went out again, got some wood and killed some sheep to get wool, when I came back, it was dark, I noticed from afar that there was something red near my house. It looked like eyes, I came closer and to my relief, was it just a sign, a sign with sparkling red letters? the sign said: RUN. I was very scared, I thought about calling my parents, but they were already sleeping at this time and would not like to know that I play minecraft at two in the morning. So, I took the board's advice and turned to run, as soon as I turned around, saw another board, it said, YOU'RE TOO LATE the exact second I finished reading, I died! I simply died! on the gameover screen it said: THING killed Andycraft555. I couldn't take it anymore, I screamed with fear, and my parents came to my aid; As soon as they came in and went to see what had scared me so much, what did they found? Nothing. The game had somehow gone back to the main screen, they scolded me for waking them up at three in the morning for such a ridiculous reason. After that, I was so traumatized that I never played minecraft again, I tried to tell my friends, but they thought I was joking. To this day I wonder; What was THING? Herobrine? Entity 313? Lick? A hacker? I never knew.