Sidney Heath

Sidney Heath wrote The Cornish Riviera, published in 1915. In his account of the Gannel, he used the name Crake for the strange cry associated with the estuary.

He also included an explanation involving a night gull. This makes his book useful when comparing the ghost story with the natural explanations that accompanied it. Heath’s account follows the nineteenth-century description by Arthur H. Norway and the 1910 retelling by Arthur L. Salmon; the sequence documents printed versions, without proving that each author collected the tradition independently.