ITunes shows thousands more photos than I have on my iPhone 5s

iTunes says that I have over 3200 photos on my iPhone taking up over 11GB of space. I've only synced 1100 photos from iPhoto to my 5s via iTunes. I have less than 40 photos in my Camera Roll and less than 50 photos in my photo stream. I manually deleted everything from my "recently deleted" album in my iPhone app (system 8.1.1). Why is iTunes saying I have over 3200 photos, and taking up 11GB on my 32 GB iPhone 5s
Thank you for any advice you can offer

I managed to get rid of the phantom usage. Restoring iPhone and resetting the phone settings/data do not work for me.
I had to move the Date on my phone earlier by 1,2,3 months and found the phantom photos in the Recently Deleted Folder. Next, I deleted the photos manually from the Recently Deleted Folder and the usage got freed up from my iPhone.
Hope this works for you

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