Why do have several folders entitled Mackintosh  HD dating between 2010 and 2013 in my trash box?

went to empty my trash on the IMac and it contains folders between 2010 and 2013 called Mackintosh HD. Eac folder shows lots of other folders. It stated there were 118 files but when I started to empty the trash it was going up to over 127,009 files before I cancelled it. Am scared that if this trash emptying is done it is going to wipe the whole computer.
Can anyone help please?

I restored the macbook from a time machine backup. Everything seems to work fine. Disk scans don't show errors and the weird sounds during shutdown are gone...
I still don't really trust the hard drive, though.

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