I have a page that uses the Facet WP plugin. It uses the below code to loop through custom post and to display them.

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-12" style="padding:10px 0px 30px 0px">
<?php echo rd_custom_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
</div>
<div style="clear:both;height: 20px; border-top:1px solid #e7f0f2"></div>
<?php endwhile; ?>

This was working fine previously (though I'm not sure when the issue occurred). 

But now, there appears to be a mystery post at the top of the page and I don't if the rd_custom_excerpt.php file is missing a closing quote or something.

When I change the loop to use <?php echo the_title(); ?>, the strange post at the top disappears which leads me to believe it is related to the theme custom excerpt.

you can disregard. I figured out the issue was with the Toolset plugin.