If you place down a chest in, you have the ability to walk trough said chest. To visualize this, I created a short video:

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So far I've only been able to recreate this in singleplayer creative mode and it appears that the orientation of the chest does not matter.

Edit: This issue is pretty inconsistent and it usually takes a few tries to pass through the chests.

Edit 2: Added the console output