Indesign

Barbara is right explaining the problem described.

You are handling objects, text frames, where one frame with a "weird secondary box around" does not allow to put or stick "boxes", text frames, together.

While the setting you name, Ignore spacing between paragraphs of the same style, is just a text attribute and as such does not include any visual indication.

I include a representation of your rotated picture here. The frame at right shows a text wrap applied to the frame.

I would suggest to learn to use (paragraph) text attributes, like space before and after, to in a flexible and editable manner fit text without placing together mnay text frames with no vertical control of text lines.

And to use screen captures directly, please see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13776/windows-10-use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots

I figured it out. I had to switch the setting to ignore on "Spacing between paragraphs of the same style".

The text box looks like it might have a text wrap applied to it. 

Select the text box with the black Selection tool. 

In the Text Wrap panel, click the first icon to remove the wrap.