"Before 2019" seems like a safe bet for pre-LLM years.. but let's see.

There was a video of an Howl/Eagle flying off with a baby, it was an hoax but it was watched all around the world

Now something like that would be laugh at and label AI generated

Don't know the details, but a baseball player was giving an interview, and at the last moment basically blind caught a ball about to wreck the interviewer.

Felix Baumgartner's freefall from the edge of space.

Edit: you asked for stories, read it as videos for some reason

Videos count too.

The moon landing already is already a conspiracy theory, so that? Or if reported from reputable sources it might just be the same conspiracy theorists dismissing it.

Let's see... The English army made blow up tanks to fake their power. The French made a second Paris to confuse pilots. The military were very upset when the first spam email was sent. This one is debated but the story is ibm choose ms-dos as their os because the owner of their first choice was out flying his plane when they went to make the deal so they went with their second choice bill gates. Apple was failing, they fired Steve jobs, Steve then made a different company, couple years later Steve was rehired by Apple and made the initial ipod.

The nerve gas report used to justify the invasion of Iraq was ripped from a scene in the Nicholas cage/sean Connery movie The Rock.

ibm choose ms-dos as their os because the owner of their first choice was out flying his plane when they went to make the deal so they went with their second choice bill gates

And Gates set up the meeting with the first guy, and as likely as not misrepresented its importance.

Ufo kid spilling on his dad in an interview

Interesting, I didn't know that

I think most of them will include videos, what with that having been the gold standard of untamperability way back when.

As quality audio was. AI slop is eerily good at nailing the hit-like formula. On the other hand, AI is probably much worse at making realistic real life audio.

Remember that sign language interpreter for Nelson Mandela's funeral?

90% of vine videos.

Those clown sightings from 2016.