Any chance you had those docs on a thumb drive that you might have plugged into the new laptop? If you explored that drive, any files with a Works specific filetype that were recognized by the system through file association would probably make it into the list. That’s my guess, anyway.
I got this new laptop and didn't really transfer anything to it in any organized way, but I have opened backup discs that may have contained those old files. I have never opened them or, as I said, opened Works previously on this computer, so I suppose it just retains the memory of having seen them on the disc.
When I try to open them, it indicates that they can't be found on the computer, as one would expect.
And those Rhetoric studies (mostly the modern stuff, the classical stuff was OK) that finally convinced me I was no intellectual. No more papers in this trailerpark!