Overview

• Blood & Myth premiered Sept. 4 and is streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
• The film includes Teddy Kyle Smith’s first on-camera interview since his arrest; he is serving a 99-year sentence for shooting hunters Paul and Charles Buckel in 2012.
• Smith maintains he encountered iñukuns—figures from Iñupiat storytelling—which he says influenced his perceptions before the cabin confrontation.
• Filmmakers present law-enforcement perspectives, testimony from Iñupiat community members, and reported rock structures near the Kobuk River that some interpret as iñukun homes.
• Police could not determine Smith’s mother’s cause of death and found no evidence of foul play; in the interview he denies involvement and expresses remorse toward the Buckel brothers.