The Coal Man

I'm going to try my best to make this simple for you all.

I was on my friends server which of this day is the 1.13.2 version. No mods were installed on this server, it was just a vanilla minecraft server for me and my friends to play on. It was late at night and I was the only one on. I wanted to get diamonds before anyone else and obviously the best way to get them is to strip mine. I started my strip mine right under my house. It was just a basic 2 block wide hole in my house. It wasn't anything fancy but hey, a guy gotta mine. As I'm strip mining, I break into this small cave. There was water running down and some coal at the end of it. I get up to the coal, and there was lots of it. I start mining this cluster that was the closest to my strip mine. I turn around to check my surroundings and spot any more ores I miss. As I'm turning, I see a black figure that looked like it was running side ways for a split second. I was perplexed, but I didn't think much of it. I turn around to mine more of the coal. And I see it. For a good 1 - 2 seconds it's this all black figure with 2 very tiny white eyes, hiding behind a wall of coal. I ran as fast as I could to the strip mine and close it up. I know it sounded like a wimpy thing to do but, it was so unexpected. The only thing that scared me in this game was herobrine and that was ages ago, when I was little. I ran back up to my house as I thought to myself what that could be. I mean it had no name tag, but it had the same model as another player. I call up my friends and they said I was just seeing things, which could be the case, but thought of it is so vivid. I did some research and discovered Null. Null was very similar to what I saw but The Coal Man(I'm going to start directing it as this now) had eyes, and only appeared for seconds. I wanted to find the exact thing I found but, no luck. A day goes by and I hop back on. I went to check on the spot where I saw him but. The whole cave wasn't there. The cobblestone that I placed in the entrance to it was there but not the cave itself. I mined everywhere to find it but, there was nothing. I gave up on this and just kept on strip mining. I hope I can find this thing. Let me know if you have seen The Coal Man or just know that this was just a visual glitch and that I am retarded.

- Backwoody