2007?? What is the basis of this and is it still true?

Am bumping this because a 2007-2008 date for the events of OUAT might be a shout-out to LOST.

Emma arrives in Storybrooke in November 2007. The Losties return to the Island for their final big-boss battle showdown about the same time.

Emma breaks the curse for good in early 2008 (late Feb or early Mar.) The big bad guy in LOST (the “man in black”) is defeated around that time as well, and a new leader/protector of the Island is chosen (Hurley, played by Jorge Garcia.)

In other words, the two timelines are close enough for me to wonder if it’s another LOST reference.

(dates are from the Lostpedia web site timeline (http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline:2005_and_beyond); they’re not exact calendar dates but are close enough.)

That’s right Gypsy. At PaleyFest, they were talking the upcoming ep. 2×17, Welcome to Storybrooke, Eddie Kitsis said” We are going to be seeing the first week of the curse……………and we are going to get more insight into what it was like that first week back in 1983…..”

I think a fake story was put in the paper so as to not spoil the season 2 storyline.

That’s the most likely explanation but I like to think that perhaps the paper was referring to another event we haven’t seen yet. Especially since Sidney knew in episode 2 of season one that “She had Henry in Phoenix” and the paper refers to Emma’s visit to Worcester, MA in 1996. Maybe we have yet to learn that someone was already manipulating events in her life when she was 16 (Peter Pan, maybe?)