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Some further loose ideas for when text boxes don't want to play nicely:

1. Do you have snap to baseline set for your text but are trying to place text in an area where the baseline grid is not defined?

2. If you have a text style with a particularly large font size and perhaps something like “keep with next x lines” (or even “start on a new page”) set this will sometimes refuse to show when the text frame isn't sufficiently large and you just see the overset marker. 

Should the latter for some reason be set as the default text style for a new text frame you will repeatedly come up against this problem. To reset the default text frame, make sure no frames are selected and then set the paragraph and object styles to what you want to have as default (or to no setting/basic style).

To add to Jongware's note on whole page boxes that inadvertantly receive the text: try putting them on another layer and locking that layer.