Thanks for the help all.

I realize I'm chasing ghosts sadly but I'm still super pissed / annoyed / confused.

The address that the transactions came from appears to have never been used either.  So both the sending and recieving address are completely empty and never had any transactions.  I'd have figured that at least the sending address must have some record of BTC being in it at some point in order to create the (doomed) transactions?

In other words, I just.... I can't understand how I have these ghost transactions in my wallet if both sending and receiving addresses have never had any funds at all (according to the blockchain)?

This would be a life changing amount of funds nowadays, for it to simply "vanish without a trace" is really, really messed up.  If the transactions failed and the funds went back to the sending address I could understand but it's like the whole thing has just completely disappeared without a trace.