Adobe Illustrator - No fill or stroke, still have a outline

This is perplexing me. All of the shapes I am creating still have a outline around them in white no matter what I do. I can't figure it out.

Has anyone experienced this before?

The shape looks like this:

I apologize if this is something simple. I've never seen this before, any help is appreciated!

Edit: sadly, I'm only able to post two images currently.