The Black Blaze Of Pocket Edition
This happened sometime around 2014. I can’t remember exactly which version of Minecraft it was, but I know it happened on Pocket Edition. To this day, I still wonder if anyone else ever experienced this glitch or saw the same entity I did, because I’ve never been able to find anything about it online.
I created a new world like I had done hundreds of times before. Everything seemed completely normal at first. I spawned near a forest, gathered wood, and started building a house just like I always did whenever I made a new world.
But after a while, I started noticing strange things happening. Random fires would appear across the world for no reason. Sometimes I would be mining or collecting wood and come back to find parts of the forest burning, even though there was no lava nearby, no lightning storm, and I had never used flint and steel. The fires looked like they had started by themselves.
At first, I ignored it. Back then, Pocket Edition was full of bugs and weird glitches, so I just assumed it was something wrong with the world generation. I kept playing normally — building my house bigger, mining for iron, exploring caves.
But the strange things kept happening. Every time I logged back into the world, there would be more fires somewhere nearby, almost like something was following me around the map. Sometimes I would find burnt patches in places I knew had been untouched before. Once, I even saw a tree catch fire right in front of me with no explanation at all.
Then one night when I logged into the world, something felt wrong immediately. Instead of spawning inside my house where I had slept, I spawned outside in the dark. I turned around and saw that my entire house was on fire.
That’s when I saw it standing between the trees.
At first I thought it was a normal blaze somehow glitched into the Overworld, but the longer I looked at it, the more wrong it seemed. It was much taller than a normal blaze, almost completely black except for glowing red eyes and dark burning rods slowly spinning around it. The fire around it wasn’t orange like normal fire — it looked deep red, almost black at the edges.
The creepiest part was that it made no sound. No crackling fire, no blaze noises. It just stood there motionless, staring at me while my house burned behind it.
I remember trying to back away when suddenly all the fires around me spread at once. Trees lit up instantly, the screen froze for a second, and my character died without anything even touching me. The game immediately kicked me back to the Minecraft main menu.
When I opened the game again, the world was gone.