Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24846659-20140813193020/@comment-24936039-20141027084824

Lianvis wrote: ... Greg an Tamara told that Storybrooke was not the first case where magic slipped into our world. In the last seasons we were trained to always asume Rumple's got his fingers in everything going on, but I can't get rid of the feeling, that this is something else...

You are correct in that there has been magic in the LWM - The Dragon in Hong Kong comes to mind. But in last weeks episode (The Apprentice), it is shown that Mr Gold knows of the Snow Queen and of her interactions with Anne and Emma... so in this case, I think it is quite reasonable for us to assume he has his fingers with all that is going on in the Snow Queen arc.