Items (and even pages) disappearing to the pasteboard in InDesign CC? for no rea

Hi. I have notice on large documents that for no apparent reason images and even whole pages are being placed on the pasteboard. In relation to the page items, the image box stays put but the image is sent onto the pasteboard. When I click to centre the image back in its box I find it has been reduced to 1% in size and rotated through 180 degrees! This has happened several times now on random images throughout a document.
On a new recent document spreads were being sent to the pasteboard. I had page numbering turned on and the page items were visible but the page numbers read 'PB'. Very confused! Been using InDesign daily since CS2 and never come across this!

I've seen some similar stuff recently with text frames in CS6. Is this a converted file? Has it ever crashed to your knowledge?
This sounds like a file on the road to disaster and at the very least I would export to .idml immediately and keep a backup copy just in case (see Remove minor corruption by exporting) but if the job were mine, I'd probably rebuild the file completely.

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