Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20150312220054/@comment-1894786-20150827140359

FrancisPaul wrote: Belle&#039;s Boyfriend wrote: Did anyone notice how the suddenly dropped the whole the outside world discovering us plot? Well, shortly after they left for Neverland, Belle enacted a cloaking spell, which still exists. It prevents people from the outside from seeing/entering Storybrooke.

The only known way is Merlin's scroll. Actually, does the spell still exist? I got the feeling that when the Curse was undone in "Going Home", so was the cloaking spell, which is how Ingrid re-entered Storybrooke sometime off-screen in 3B. She had forgotten all that had happened to her in Storybrooke because it disappeared, but she had not forgotten that she needed to find it, since she knew that from before.

Though to be fair, she also likely had Merlin's scroll with her that time as well.