‘Australia’s Bigfoot’ watched over a small town for decades. Then one day, it disappeared

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The small town of Kilcoy is not the site of the first, or even the most recent, “Yowie” sighting. And hunters of Australia’s version of Bigfoot are no more likely to see it there than anywhere else in the country’s vast, rugged bushland. Yet, for decades, a vacant-eyed replica of a towering, hairy beast has stared into the distance from a plinth in the centre of town. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today It’s a monument to an astonishing encounter almost 45 years ago, one that Tony Solano says he’ll never forget. “To this day, I am...