Found photos in the trash that I havent put there...

I came to open my trash today after dropping some odd desktop files in there and found a load of photos in there.
Im quite worried as Im the only user, yesterday I securely emptied the trash (therefore they werent in there) and no one else could have used the mac.
I recently upgraded from iphoto 06 to 08 and was wondering if they were duplicates.... Even so i havent told iphoto to get rid of them so im confused and worried that if I have an issue then i may have lost photos before now.
Anyone else having the same problem?
P.S my apologies if this has been discussed before but all i can find are delete issues that are accidental and need recovery.

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Are you referring to the iPhoto trash or the Main OS X trash on the desktop?
How big are these files?
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