Why is there a new folder on my Macintosh HD "lost + found"

I have a new folder called "lost + found" on my hard drive "Macintosh HD"
It contains a single 5.3GB file called "iNode8889545"
What's this all about, and my "Users" folder is now invisible...........

You ran fsck, or the system did. There were lost file blocks, they have been collected into the lost+found directory.

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