The “real world” outside of Storybrooke is the same “universe” in which LOST takes place (Apollo bars; an airline called Ajira; another plane flying overhead with a symbol which looks very much like Oceanic Airlines.)
If it is, and since the LOST-verse is definitely “magical” (or at least has so many unexplained and unusual things that they might as well be magic), this would imply that the “real world” also is magical even before the FTL people arrive.