I think the story is kinda like this, but accelerated...Tsukumogami (付喪神, "Kami of tool") is a term used to categorize a type of yōkai. Understood by many Western scholars as a type of Japanese yōkai, the Tsukumogami was a concept popular in Japanese folklore as far back as the tenth century...
A monkey escaped from a nearby zoo, Big Bro turned a corner, saw the monkey picking up the phone, yelled "stop that's my sis phone". Monkey got scared, took off with the phone into the bushes, Big bro gave chase.