2500 images flowed into iPhoto that aren't mine! What happened? Whose are they?! Do I have to go through

When I opened iPhoto about 2500 images imported that are not mine. What happened? Whose are they? How do I get rid of them?

We live in a rural area and have a small business. No one has access to my computer except me. My husband doesn't use it -- ever -- so no one else has connected a device unless some mysterious remote visitor obtained access. The pictures are labeled "Resources" and "theme-files". They are not of people but a lot of flat squares of color. They are dated from early 2000's (around 2003) until the present. When I opened iPhoto, the number of pictures I have went from over 7500 to over 10,000 lickety split. I clicked "stop import" but nothing doing -- it said I had to wait until the download was complete. So there they are -- lots and lots of squares of color and shape type imagery. Is there a way to find a "location" on the map of where they came from? Also, I quite recently did a cleaning with MacKeeper and it came up with nothing malicious there.

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