All emails in Inbox suddenly marked as UNREAD

I don't know what the **** happened but the other day I'm watching as all 14,000 emails saved in my inbox are counting down from READ to UNREAD. It happened suddenly and right in front of my eyes. I've rebooted the system and checked preferences but I have not been able to figure out what happened or why... FURTHERMORE old message subject lines do not correspond to the actual message. For instance.. if a message from JOHN SMITH shows up in the subject line as "Re: Finances"... when clicked on, it will show up as a message from Yahoo about my fantasy football team. This is extremely perplexing as I own a small business and MUST have access to old messages.. I am really annoyed at this since I am paying over $100/year for this email account and am wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem.

Also just to mention. I have not deleted or accidentally deleted any of them. Does anyone out there know what can cause this ?
Sophia
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