A 'ghost' photo in my camera roll

Good afternoon, today I was connecting my iPhone 6 (iOS 8.2) to my PC (Windows 8.1) to import pictures from the camera roll. When I checked the DCIM folder on the PC there was a sub-folder containing a photo that I took 1 year ago. In that period I had an iPhone 5S with the same iCloud account and I remember that this picture remained blocked in the gallery's preview in the Camera app, even if I had deleted previously. For this reason, I reset all contents of the iPhone 5S and it seemed to work. Actually the pic is still there in DCIM folder, even if I have never seen it in the gallery since its deletion. I also noticed that in my icloud.com settings I have in 'my devices' that are running iOS 8 also the iPhone 5S! So strange, because I deleted the backup and the association in itunes with that device!
I would try to reset also the iPhone 6, but I want to know first if someone had the same issue and maybe knows how to solve it. Thank you very much.

UPDATE: I solved the problem.
The ghost picture was in my iCloud Photo Library. I still couldn't see it on icloud.com because there were no pictures uploaded, but in the iPhone's settings (iCloud>Photos) when the library was uploading, even if I had no pictures in my camera roll, showed "Preparing to upload 1 element". So I immediately understood that was that famous photo. At this point, I just deactivated iCloud photo library and did the backup with the setting on "OFF". I erased my iPhone and I restored the backup without the photo library. When my iPhone was ready, I checked there were no pictures in camera roll and I activated the iCloud photo library and guess what? It saved in camera roll the ghost pic that was hidden for the long period. So the games were done, I deleted the ghost pic and my icloud photo library was updated correctly with '0 elements'. I checked on icloud.com and I have no photos in storage, I also checked the DCIM folder connecting my iphone to the PC and there is no 'phantomatic pic'.
I hope this will help some people with the same issue. Best regards and sorry for my english.

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