Ghost Science

If you have never heard of herobrine, then I will tell you a story. [creepypasta ahead]

Herobrine was originally discovered by various people in SMP, and this eyeless soul-less character which has the identical texture to the human-player, except the pupils from the eyes are missing. The story go's that this is Notches [creator of minecraft] brother, whom died some years ago and now manifests within the game. Although long presumed a rumor as Notch himself said, within recent patches of the game, build logs have listed HEROBRINE REMOVED, but is this just a clever ploy by Notch?