Shapes with no fill color are appearing as black and not blank, how do I remove the black?

[Sarah Lund]

I have not been able to find any help on this confusing problem. I've been working on this file for a while and suddenly parts of my shapes that have no fill color a registering as filled with black, even though it shows that it has no fill, just the outline I have it set to. When I create a new object like a rectangle it is doing the same thing, outline black, no fill color, but the whole shape is black. What is going on and how can I fix this? I need to print off this shapes but the preview is showing black.

Something else I noticed that was strange, was when I put a different object behind the object appearing as black it now looks white instead. 

 

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

Select one of the objects and look at the appearance panel.

Is there an entry for 'Layer' in it? If so, double-click it and remove whatever appearance is there.

If not, please show a screenshot including the panel.

[Sarah Lund]

I checked under appearance and it was there. I don't know how that got there but it was affecting all my shapes. Thank you!