Eugene O'Neill's childhood home

Nobel laureate playwright Eugene O'Neill based his autobiographical masterpiece "Long Day's Journey Into Night" on this childhood home and his own family. His mother, Ella O'Neill, struggled for years with a morphine addiction that began after a difficult childbirth; young Eugene would hear her moving through a small room next to his, crying and then laughing to herself late into the night. Now a museum, the house is reported by staff and visitors to still carry footsteps in that small room, a sense of being followed, cold spots, and — most often described — the sound of sobbing turning to laughter.