This is a bug where When Render Distance is set to something above 5 certain areas of land become cloned along a large area, the clones are ghost blocks. 14w31a is the only version i have found it in mostly but i think it has been a bug since the new chunk loading/rendering was added since it seems to change the clones based on where i am looking.
Environment
Java: 1.7.0_65 32bit
Mem: 924MB
Display:854x480 (ATI Technologies Inc.) ATI Radeon 3400 Series 2.1.7976 release
Dupe of MC-62958