Pen tool stroke issue. Glitch?

So im pretty sure someone has the answer to this, and I will tell you how I "fixed" it, but for now I need to know why it is doing this.
I am outlining a scanned image with the pen tool. I set my Stroke to white w/ no fill. BUT, when I draw it turns cyan and if I turn off the stroke comletely, it still shows a stroke, even though the red slashes appear on my tool bar. Hmmm... any idea why it is doing this? Does this explaination even make sense?
so I fixed it by simply copying the art and pasting it into a new dwg. (a little ACAD trick) But curiousity still lingers...what causes this issue? A glitch?....

How did you tell there was an appearance on that layer? Guess I overlooked it...
So was that something that I did on accident then, I guess?
thanks for the help on that...that did it.
I can tell Im gonna learn alot on this here forum...

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