Strange iPhone Calendar Behavior

I am using a MacBook Pro OS 10.10.3 and an iPhone 6 iOS 8.3, I sync my Mac calendar to my iPhone calendar manually with iTunes (no iCloud). Several days ago, I noticed that when I change an event on my Mac (name, date, time, etc.) and do a sync, it creates a new event on my iPhone, but the old event is still there. If I do the opposite and change an event on the iPhone and then sync, the changes do not show up on the Mac, but the old (unchanged) event reappears on the iPhone. I tried the option in iTunes to replace the calendar information on the iPhone with the information on the Mac, but that hasn't solved the problem. Is there any hope of getting these two devices to sync their calendars correctly?

You are NOT alone! My iPhone 5 is doing some bizarre things as well! The random characters in e-mails or other alpha fields occurs - I give up and use SIRI because it will even jump around where it decides to input these characters! It opens apps I did not select or didn't get anywhere near. I thought it was my ZAGG InvisibleShield, except that my husband has the exact same set up as me on his iPhone 5 without the bizarre behaviors. The screen will zoom to majorly huge without my instructions (taps, pinch, etc.) and will get totally unresponsive. I must reset my iPhone a bazillion times a day and leave it completely off for long periods hoping to give its "brain" a rest.
Nathan's suggestion is what I will be doing, but the closest Apple Genius Bar is many hours drive from our home. I will have to wait until we fly out west for the holidays...

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MAGIC happened for me as well.
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The summary of this question is below.
[Environment]
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[Problem]
Creating new event on Outlook, the event is reflected iPhone calendar correctly.
Creating new event on iPhone calendar, the event is reflected to Outlook, but the event disappear on iPhone calendar.
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