Couldn't figure out why my sphere was teleporting

Problem

After parenting the sphere to the empty, whenever the animation is played back, it teleports to the same coordinates that it likes.

Attempted Solutions

• `Clear Parent` and `Clear Parent Inverse`
• Delete all coordinate keyframes
  
  

Screenshots

1. Starts on Keyframe 1, everything looking good so far!
2. Keyframe 2, sphere teleports somewhere else!

Observation / Conclusion

Using Alt + D or Shift + D allows me to create a duplicate sphere, where one is linked duplicate. Anyways, the duplicated sphere uses the same coordinate movement as the original sphere. The workaround is to Duplicate, delete the existing keyframes, and manually do the location and rotation. Using empty doesn't work because the existing keyframes seems to overrule.