Alpha 1.2.3 03

Ok, so the day started off as a regular day, looking for minecraft versions and doing research on them.

In the afternoon, I was doing research on the Alpha 1.2.3 series. I saw that 1.2.3_03 was not in any update log, nothing.. It was weird to see that there was no _03 in the launcher too. Did Notch purposely skip the version? Was it only a private-testing version? Who knows. Then, I stumbled upon this forum post and there was a link to something, the post was dated November 25, 2010, in the early hours of midnight. I clicked the link, and it instantly downloaded a minecraft.jar.

Now, I got the .jar, made a .json on it and it appeared on the launcher. I clicked "Play" then, it loaded up the usual Minecraft title screen. I clicked Singleplayer, then made a new world. There it was, Alpha 1.2.3_03. The version that "never existed".

I started making a house, the usual, and started exploring the world. The first thing I saw was trees burning. Herobrine? Dunno. Then, I saw a sign saying "Stop." I was like, "What..?" Meanwhile, I paused the game, and looked up more information about this version. I saw a thread on an archived forum post that said, "Something is in my Minecraft world!"

More replies said the usual, "That's fake, why would that happen?" "what? thats never happened to me, are you trying to get attention?"

After I viewed the post, It was instantly deleted. It was weird. The same thing was happening to me too.

I went back into playing, and I went to a cave and saw a small tunnel. I went into it, and I saw another sign. It said, "Why are you in this version?". Then, another next to it, "You aren't meant to be here."

I then look behind myself, seeing a dark figure behind me and my game instantly crashes. I start the game again on a new world, not caring about what happened and a sign was next to me when I spawned. It said, "Get out", I got a bit scared. Then, I saw a black figure in the distance, and when I got near it my game started glitching out. My game crashed once again then I was met with a black screen saying, "Goodbye". And then the version was removed from my launcher. It was very weird. I really hope that never happens to me again.