Laskern, why not?
Toi, it is a machloket between Rabbi Natan and Rabbi Meir (Horiot 13b). As we generally do not pasken like Rabbi Meir one-to-one against another Tanna it seems that either R. Elya’s yetzer hara succeeded or the storyteller’s yetzer hara succeeded (the Divrei Chaim said that if a chassid tells you he something with his own eyes maybe he once heard it).