Blood & Myth , a Hulu documentary out Sept. 4, explores an unusual true crime story : the case of an Indigenous Alaskan actor who claims he was possessed by little people when he shot two brothers who were hunting in 2012.

The brothers, Paul and Charles Buckel, survived. And Teddy Kyle Smith, an Iñupiat actor most famous for the 2011 Sundance film On the Ice, is currently serving a 99-year prison sentence. In 2014, a jury found him guilty of first-degree attempted murder two years after he shot the brothers in a cabin by the Squirrel River, 40 miles from Kiana, a city in northern Alaska. Smith shot the Buckels while on the run after the death of his mother, claiming he thought the men were sent by iñukuns, little people who some Inupiat say live in the Alaskan tundra and may have

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