Moving Gmail emails in Mail - OSX 10.8.5

I'm using version 6.6 of Mail, running on OSX 10.8.5. I've been using it with my IMAP gmail account for a few years now with little to no problem, but I've always noticed this issue that I can never figure out.
To organize my mail, I often create folders/Smart Mailboxes "On My Mac" - usually with subfolders as well. (2013 freelance jobs, then each job, for example). Often times when I go back to find an email within those folders, they are totally corrupted, turned into long long scrolls of gibberish, and any attachments that were originally in the email are lost.
How do I stop this from happening? If I leave things in my inbox it doesn't seem to be an issue, but it's not feasible for organization, and for space (on both my hard drive and my gmail account).
This is a sample of what the emails look like ("Consoles" is the subject, and then you can see the 1 line of comprehensible text. The other picture is a sample of the endless gibberish - if I were to print, it would be 185 pages)

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