Once upon a time, in a plain old building where one man was creating something that would inspire many others in the distant future.  This man's name was Notch or Markus Perrson.  He decided to make an amazing game called Minecraft it had not much in the alpha version.  But then he saw it was getting popular so he decided to update and when more people came to play this amazing game people reported sightings of this immortal figure in their survival world.  These character had the same skin as steve accept on thing his eyes.  His eyes were the white.  Some people say he has white eyes because he was blinded.  Or maybe he was a glitch or a experimental skin for Notch's game.  Who knows but this character was extremely spooky he would pop out of no-where and kill you.  He would haunt your singleplayer games.  There was a riot about this new character.  They said he was a hacker.  We will never know all we know is he is the king of the Underworld (Nether).  People did not like this guy very much.  He exploded on youtube, minecraft forums, minecraft wiki, and planet minecraft.  But one day he finally got a name Herobrine.  His name is pronounced several ways such as Hero-brian or Hero-brin.  We do not know how Herobrine got his name because he for certain was not a hero.  Herobrine was the worst thing to see in minecraft.  Notch decided enough is enough and in 1.6 he removed Herobrine we will never know if this actually removed him or not but 1.6 definetly did not remove our fears of Herobrine.