Random thought: Could these odd messages be ones that have been deleted without ever having been approved? If you delete from the admin or mod control panel, it hard deletes - they are gone, but if you do a soft delete from the thread itself, the posts are still there, and presumably still carry their 'moderated post' status, but they are also deleted, so would not show up in lists of posts. I do occasionally delete posts from the thread as I read them in context before deleting them.
I wouldn't have a clue how to check SQL tags or whatever it is to find out but it's a theory. Can anyone who does know how to play with SQL see if this is the case please?
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