Okay, I'll bite. What is "The Elephant Story"?
Brother delivers hay for several of the local sod/hay farms. One of the customers was Busch Gardens in Florida.
So, his first trip down there, he had to follow this winding, narrow road to the back of the facilty to this big metal building that was the hay barn.
He wa super, super careful driving around it, backing up etc....but about the time he stopped the truck, one of the zoo keepers started yelling that he must have hit the building.
Sure enough, one whole side for about 20 feet was rippled and bent. He filled out all the proper accident forms and let for home, felling awful that he'd screwed up a delivery.
He gets home and my mother calls him and says "Someone just called and said something about the elephant did it?"
Brother calls his boss and he's laughing so hard he can't talk. So brother calls Busch Gardens.
Seems that just before brother got there, an elephant got out and took an afternoon stroll over to the haybarn. And got an itch...that he scratched on the side of the barn.
Since then, the running gag anytime something happens that can't be explained is that the elephant did it. :)