Basically, each and every time that I've tried so far (around 5 times), as soon as i kill the enderman (in the overworld if that helps) it seems to randomly teleport it's dead body really far away then back very quickly, before dropping its ender pearl.
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Well not really, that's only if you hit him into water according to that bug, this is just always.
Duplicate of 15862