Storybrooke comes into being on October 28, 1983 after Queen Regina of the Enchanted Forest enacts the Dark Curse, ripping everyone from their native land and bringing them to one without magic. A vast quantity of black smoke envelops a forest in Maine, startling two campers who wake up to discover that a humdrum little town has appeared out of nowhere. They are welcomed, while Regina is happy to wake up having won, now the Mayor of all the people who have ever wronged her. She approaches her arch-nemesis, Snow White, who is now an elementary teacher named Mary Margaret Blanchard; she proceeds to take her to the hospital to show her Prince Charming, now a John Doe in a coma, and gets a sense of immense satisfaction when she has no idea who he is. She then discovers the campers - a father a