Table of contents is broken up

Hello, I am working on a document and for some reason half of my table of contents - about 3 entries - started appearing a few pages into the middle of the document. I turned on invisibles but there is nothing unusual before the dangling area like a section break or anything. When I select the area and right click, delete and other editing functions are grayed out so I can't do anything with the dangling part. Any ideas what might be going on? Is it possible to delete a TOC and start over? Many thanks.

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