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

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…