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Okay, I may have figured out the code.
But, I'm gonna be honest, this is my first try at cracking a code this way and I am also very tired right now so I may be completely wrong 
I went back into the photo and took a really close look at the runes just in case anything was missed. A lot of the symbols were indistinct or a little scratchy, so all the lines I was confident about I marked in red and all the lines I wasn't sure about I marked in blue (the purple and green stuff at the top was me trying to figure out letter frequencies). The bottom line seemed to me to be the most intact so I started there first and then worked up. I did actually manage to get a coherent phrase out of it but the problem lies in that there are so many symbols that I wasn't 100% sure about that for a few of them I had to make educated guesses based on stuff that seemed to work in the bottom line. So I'm not sure how off the mark I am. But I figured I'd post it here anyway just in case I wasn't completely off track 
"THERE ARE GHOSTS IN THE CHAIR
NO MORE LIGHT
THE COLD AND THE DARKNESS WILL TAKE ME" |
Cool! Even if it's not right decipher sounds very impressive.