#pigpen code

it's a book about ghosts and the paranormal from around 1850

(mines in better shape)

but the reason i got it isn't even just because it was an occult book (my special interest at the time). no i got it because of this

see those markings? my 11 year old cryptography (another special interest) obsessed brain i instantly recognized that as pigpen code. i didn't know it by heart so i went home from the antique book shop, got all of my birthday money i ever had and bought it so i could decode it.

here's the pig pen code.

so upon decoding it i was heartbroken to learn that it was gibberish:

HMWOOTMO