There’s a strange, giant robot left behind at a pop star’s abandoned mansion

There’s a strange, giant robot left behind at a pop star’s abandoned mansion

A pop star moved out. His 60-foot robot didn’t.

A colossal robot of that massive height has been haunting the English countryside after being left behind at the former estate of UK pop star Robbie Williams, terrifying unsuspecting locals who stumble across it lurking in the woods.

The mechanical giant, which residents have nicknamed “Om,” once served as the showstopping centerpiece of a $20 million concert set built for Take That, the British boy band fronted by Williams. 

A giant 60-foot animatronic robot has been discovered abandoned at a former pop star’s mansion, spooking locals who stumble across it poking out of the trees. Tom Wren / SWNS
The property belonged to Robbie Williams and sits in the English countryside, in the village of Compton Bassett. Tom Wren / SWNS

The animatronic figure debuted during the group’s blockbuster 2011 world tour, a production so massive it rivaled anything American acts like *NSYNC or the Backstreet Boys ever rolled out.

Williams, one of the UK’s best-selling solo artists, once called the sprawling seven-bedroom mansion in Compton Bassett his home.

(These days, Williams is spending his days in Florida, where he newly purchased a sprawling $40 million Coral Gables waterfront estate, The Post reported.)

But when he sold the Wiltshire property years later, the towering robot apparently stayed put, quietly rusting away among the trees.

Nicknamed “Om,” the robot was originally built as the centerpiece of a $20 million stage set for Williams’ band Take That’s 2011 world tour (think a UK equivalent of a Backstreet Boys or NSYNC-level act). Redferns
(L-R) Howard Donald, Robbie Williams, Gary Barlow, Jason Orange and Mark Owen of Take That perform on stage in front of a 60ft giant robot during the band’s ‘Progress’ tour on Saturday, July 9, 2011, at Wembley Stadium in London, England. Redferns
The robot got left behind when he sold the house years later. Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock

Now it’s become an unlikely local legend. 

Drivers and dog walkers passing the estate have reported doing a double take at the sight of the hulking figure peering out from the foliage.

Resident Sarah Spencer said the shock of the sighting stopped her in her tracks.

“When I first saw it I had to turn around and go back to see what I thought I’d seen,” Spencer told Talker News. “It caught me completely off guard but I was intrigued. I thought someone had built a Wicker Man.”

Drivers and dog-walkers who’ve spotted it looming out of the woods described the encounter as unsettling. Tom Wren / SWNS
One resident said her first reaction was to double back and make sure she wasn’t imagining it. Tom Wren / SWNS
Another resident joked it looked like a set piece from “The Wicker Man” horror film. Tom Wren / SWNS

Fellow villager Liz Neve described a similarly eerie encounter, saying the robot’s placement along the road makes it feel like it materializes out of thin air.

“It’s such a perfect location as it just seems to emerge from nowhere and then as you drive alongside it, it seems to withdraw back into the foliage,” Neve said.

Neve joked she wondered “if the locals might be building up to a re-enactment of the Wicker Man.”

Neither Williams nor representatives for the estate have said why the towering prop was never hauled away, or whether there are any plans to finally give the abandoned robot its walking papers.

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